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The Strange Proposal (Wainwright Duology, #2) QUOTES

The Strange Proposal (Wainwright Duology, #2) QUOTES

1 " Just what do you mean by being saved?” she asked at length. “Why, saved from punishment from yer sin. That’s eternal separation from God, ya know. I’m saved!” He said it with an air of quiet conviction that was startling. “How do you know?” asked Mary Elizabeth. “Because Christ said so,” said the boy. “He said, ‘He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.’ Mr. Saxon drilled us a lot on that. He said we might havta tell someone someday that was dying and afraid.” “And "

― Grace Livingston Hill , The Strange Proposal (Wainwright Duology, #2)

2 " You were almost a child then, a bonny child, but untried. But now I can see the dear lines that time and care and pain and sickness and trouble and poverty have engraved on your face, and they have only made you more lovely. I think it’ll be like that in heaven, Margaret, we’ll see the lines that life has put upon us; in some it will have cut away all the faults and mistakes and follies, and there will be little left, but with those who have been faithful in the testings, it will show up a wondrous beauty! "

― Grace Livingston Hill , The Strange Proposal (Wainwright Duology, #2)