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1 " These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive rebellion is. The slaughter after the Golden Calf was worshiped. The thousands who died. The firestorm that burned the outer rim of camp when the foreigners among us incited a riot. They take for granted the miraculous water that feeds this multitude. They have eaten the manna every day of their lives and do not see the utter strangeness of it. They have not felt the desperation of thirst or the hopelessness of hunger. All they do is complain, "
― Connilyn Cossette , Wings of the Wind (Out From Egypt, #3)
2 " When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point. "
3 " There was no use wondering about the past. "
4 " You can tuck your head under your wing for a while...and wait out this storm. But you will fly again. "
― Connilyn Cossette , Shadow of the Storm (Out From Egypt, #2)
5 " But still she fled, leaving me battered and bleeding among the remnants of my brother's life, each of her parting footfalls another blow to the dream I'd not deserved, but had foolishly dared to hope for. "
― Connilyn Cossette , Until the Mountains Fall (Cities of Refuge, #3)
6 " She gently placed her palm on my wounded shoulder and the warmth of her hand did nearly as much to soothe the ache as did the ointment. If only she would continue touching me, allow us to forge something new together from the broken pieces of our past. Her willing presence in my life would be far more healing than any balm "
7 " She tipped her head back and laughed with gusto, the sound so full and lovely that my own amusement crashed to a halt and I could do nothing but stare. The notes of her laughter twirled through the air like butterflies alight on the breeze. "
8 " There is no army, no fortress, no giant that can stand against our God. No one. I have seen with my own eyes. I have walked through the bottom of the sea. On dry ground. I have watched as he humiliated Egypt and brought the mighty Pharaoh low. "
9 " There is no army, no fortress, no giant that can stand against our God. No one. I have seen his might with my own eyes. "
10 " Yahweh is the creator of all that there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our hearts will stop beating, our eyes will close, the mountains may someday crumble, the trees will wither away, but Yahweh will always be. "
― Connilyn Cossette , Counted with the Stars (Out From Egypt, #1)
11 " The broken pieces will make this vessel even better. "
12 " Release him to the care of the God Who Sees, and have faith that no matter how far he may stray, Yahweh still holds him in the palm of his hand. "
― Connilyn Cossette , To Dwell Among Cedars (The Covenant House, #1)
13 " Because you are the woman the Creator made you to be, no matter where you come from or what you look like. "
14 " There will be times when there is nothing you can do but survive, to place one foot after the other into the driving rain. "
15 " The consequences of our foolish decisions are always made clearer when we look backward on the path we've traveled. "
― Connilyn Cossette , Like Flames in the Night (Cities of Refuge, #4)
16 " I know you love him, and that your heart is just as burdened as ours over his brokenness. But you are not his God, Eliora. You cannot save him from himself. That task is Yahweh’s alone. "
17 " How marvelous that two enemy children, wild branches by any measure, could—like my father had said—become one with the sons of Avraham. "
18 " I do not mean to insinuate that your reasons for such self-sacrifice are anything but honorable, only that you do not allow yourself to relax and enjoy what you have, because you are working so hard to earn something you’ve already been given. "
19 " They disregarded the Torah — either willfully, or because the knowledge of the laws regarding handling of the Ark was not properly taught generations to generation. They suffered the consequences for such disobedience. The Philistines are not beholden to our laws. They have no such sacred responsibility. However, they still were cursed because of their foolish boast that they’d been victorious over Yahweh — a notion that the pharaoh in Mosheh’s day learned by suffering his own plagues. "
20 " Just how many nameless, faceless friends had I been protected by without knowing it? "
― Connilyn Cossette , Between the Wild Branches (The Covenant House, #2)
