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Michael R. Phillips QUOTES

Michael R. Phillips QUOTES

1 " Legacies, however, were God’s business. His own duty was to live every day as God’s man and leave the rest to his heavenly Father. The only legacy he needed be concerned with was that God remembered his name, even if no one else did. Ernest’s "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Inheritance (Secrets of the Shetlands, #1)

2 " Growth is one of those things you can't see up close. You have to stand back to see how something or someone has changed as time has passed. "

― Michael R. Phillips , Together Is All We Need (Shenandoah Sisters, #4)

3 " Maybe we all need to forgive our mamas and papas for the things they did that hurt us or confused us ... I came to realize that I needed to forgive Mr. Daniels for the resentment I'd allowed myself to feel toward him. If he was my father, then maybe God wanted that word to mean something in my life. And maybe the first thing it meant was forgiveness. I realized that I could never altogether be the person God wanted me to be without it. I realized that lots of times wholeness as a person starts with forgiving others, and usually somebody close to you like a mother or father. "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3)

4 " I sat for a long time in silence. I didn’t get any more feelings that God was saying anything. Maybe He’d said all He had to say. If that was true, then I reckoned it was time I did what He’d told me to do—ask Him. God had had His say. Now it was my turn. I don’t suppose God keeps talking to someone who’s not paying attention to what He says. If you want Him to keep talking to you, I guess you’ve got to keep your half of the conversation going, and right now I figured that my half of the conversation was to do what He’d told me. "

― Michael R. Phillips , Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah Sisters, #1)

5 " If more of those who had set themselves to explain God’s ways through the years had devoted a greater portion of their energies to obey what He has told them to do rather than theorize concerning His work, the world would doubtless be much further along toward its ultimate salvation than it presently is. "

― Michael R. Phillips , Jesus, an Obedient Son

6 " The companionship their heavenly Father had seen fit to deprive them of during their middle years of life had been amply restored, and a vitality and strength of body gave them back at the end of their lives the friendship and love each had stored away for so long. Always "

― Michael R. Phillips , Stranger at Stonewycke (The Stonewycke Legacy, #1)

7 " teach me greater thankfulness of heart "

― Michael R. Phillips , Stranger at Stonewycke (The Stonewycke Legacy, #1)

8 " In my mortal mind I am unable to see how you will work it out. But somehow you will provide for my daughter’s needs, "

― Michael R. Phillips , Stranger at Stonewycke (The Stonewycke Legacy, #1)

9 " The prayer of faith that your heart is urging you toward must come from somewhere deeper than mere words you read from a page. Faith, as I said, is a matter of the heart, not of the brain.” The "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, #1)

10 " We’re supposed to think about it. Whenever we look around us, we’re supposed to find out the meaning God put into the things we see. "

― Michael R. Phillips , A Perilous Proposal (Carolina Cousins, #1)

11 " That’s the trouble with people of all colors—they judge folks by what they think they see, which is usually only on the outside. But it’s what’s inside that counts. That’s what makes a person who he or she really is. And "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3)

12 " Some folks think praying happens only when you’re in church or are actually talking to God. But I’m not so sure. I think that when you’re feeling the silent mysteries of the world, and feeling the tunes that God put into it for us to listen to, and when you let His creation make you happy, then that’s a kind of praying too. "

― Michael R. Phillips , Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah Sisters, #1)

13 " God brings new winds to our lives to keep us from being too attached to this world, and to make us trust Him. He brings the rains, he brings the snows, then He brings back the sun. Always life is changing. No matter what happens, He will sustain us through it.” She "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, #1)

14 " It won’t do you any good to be baptized just because you are afraid of hell. Baptism won’t save you from hell, Emma.” “What will, den?” “Recognizing that God loves you, that you are His precious child, and then living as His child just as Jesus did. That’s why Jesus is called our Savior, because He saves us and shows us how to live as God’s children, and then helps us. "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Soldier's Lady (Carolina Cousins, #2)

15 " I love education and learning and knowledge, but give me a man with wisdom any time. "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, #1)

16 " The awakening of the heart is one of the most wonderful, frightening, joyous experiences in human life. "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, #1)

17 " It’s like this, Jake . . . when life gets hard—whether you’re white or black doesn’t make any difference—folks have got a choice what to do about it. "

― Michael R. Phillips , A Perilous Proposal (Carolina Cousins, #1)

18 " There’s a lot of angry people in the world, Jake—lots and lots of angry people. Some are angry down inside where nobody sees. Others you can tell just from looking at them. I’ve seen a lot of folks with anger inside them, Jake. It’s not pleasant to see. Anger’s not a pretty thing. It makes people miserable inside. Then there’s other folks that get sad and discouraged at all the hardships that come in their lives. Maybe they don’t get angry, but they go around being sad and miserable and letting people know it. They want people to feel sorry for them, and that’s not too pretty to see either.” “So "

― Michael R. Phillips , A Perilous Proposal (Carolina Cousins, #1)

19 " Look here, Duff, I said, you think your life is hard, well, lots of other folks’ lives are hard too. Some of them are even harder than yours! So you quit feeling so sorry for yourself like you’ve got it so bad. You’re alive, aren’t you? You’re healthy and strong, aren’t you? You don’t have it nearly so bad as you think. No matter what you’ve been through, life can be a pretty good thing if you’ll let it. "

― Michael R. Phillips , A Perilous Proposal (Carolina Cousins, #1)

20 " Never "

― Michael R. Phillips , Angels Watching Over Me (Shenandoah Sisters, #1)