“I love a man with dishpan hands!”

“I think you're the kind of man a girl can count on. You just can't let go of losing your family. You can't let yourself love because you think your heart can't handle it . . . that something bad will happen. But you're wrong. It's true . . . grief is the price for love. But hearts are made to mend. Christ can do wonders with a broken heart, if given all the pieces.”

“But love is so much more than words.”

“We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.”

“What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something that couldn't be sold or taken for granted.”

“When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?”

“We are not promised skies always blue, but a Helper to see us through.”