Wise Women

My mama, 1940s
Yosemite National Park

"An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels... She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain. but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised." (Prov. 31:1,26,30)

"Wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul." 
~ Corrie Ten Boom

"They come and go so quickly

Spring and Fall...

as if they had not really

come at all.

Perhaps

we could not take 

too much of beauty,

breath-catching glory,

ecstasy without relief;

and so...

God made them

brief."

~ Ruth Bell Graham

"Keep reading the Bible and don't worry about understanding everything. Eventually, it will go right past your mind and into your spirit." ~ Evelyn Baskin

"If there were more study of Genesis instead of so much argument about it, its truth would be clearer." ~ Dr. Henrietta C. Mears

"Life comes in seasons, and some seasons are awful hard. Ain't nothing you kin do 'bout that, but yer attitude in the midst of the pain is yer choice. The secret is to stay saddled up close to Jesus ever'day.  Talk to Him and listen to what He's got to say by stayin' under His word and goin' to His church. Then, even when ya got troubles, them troubles ain't got you." ~ Nonie Baskin of Hoot Owl Hollow

"Things will look better in the morning - they always do." 

~ Verna B. Watson, my mother

"Let the hope of heaven empower you to live well in this broken world that is passing away... If this world were all there is, it would be tragic beyond description." ~ Sarah Young

"Behold, the bondservant of the Lord; may it be done to me according to Your word." ~ Mary, mother of Jesus

O Christian, "Know that wisdom is like honey for you; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off!" (Prov. 24:14)