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Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6) QUOTES

Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6) QUOTES

1 " I really don’t know. We should be wise enough to know we can trust Him with everything, but it seems as if He is forever needing to remind us—one thing at a time. Maybe it’s because we just hang onto some things too tightly, wanting our own way too much. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

2 " Thank you, Lord, I prayed, for turning something bad into something good. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

3 " Rest, yes. Sleep, no,” I answered. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

4 " It was Sunday again, though I had a hard time really convincing myself of that fact. It seemed so strange not to be preparing for church. I missed the worship. I missed the contact with friends. I missed being with my own family. But, most of all, I missed the feeling of refreshing that came from spending time with other believers in praise and prayer. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

5 " Well, Elizabeth, I said to myself, you certainly have a lot to learn. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

6 " From somewhere LaMeche produced a coffee pot and coffee. I will never be able to find the words to express what it was like to sit before the fire, smelling coffee brew on that horrible night. Somehow it seemed to be a promise that the world would one day be normal again. The trader had also found a couple of battered tin cups. I clutched the cup closely in chilled hands and drank of the dark, hot liquid. I knew that with the help of the coffee I would somehow make it through this nightmare until the morning came again. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

7 " I will even admit that spinach, which I hate, might taste good. But I am not sorry that I came with you, Wynn. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

8 " Something I maybe should have said long ago, but I want to say now, with all my heart—with all my love. I’m proud of you, Elizabeth. Proud of your strength, your support, your ability to adjust to hard things. You’ve been my help, my support, my right arm, Elizabeth. I don’t know what I ever would have done without you. You’ve more than proved me wrong—over and over. You belong here—with me.” Wynn kissed me again, and I brushed away happy tears and lifted my face again to his. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

9 " The Bible tells us that God abhors it, too. He wants us to love and care for one another.” “Does the white man know that?” “Some of them do.” “Hasn’t the white man had the Bible for many years?” “Yes, for many years.” “Then why doesn’t he read it and do what it says?” I shook my head. It was a troubling question. “I don’t know,” I finally admitted. “I really don’t know. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

10 " I stood too. I didn’t want to return to the village. I disliked even more the thought of returning to the small cabin. I was so thankful that it would soon be spring again and I could enjoy more and more of the outdoors. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

11 " Look!” I cried. “A moose—two mooses.” Wynn smiled and nodded his head as he followed my pointing finger. He turned to me and said simply, “I must correct you, Elizabeth, so you won’t be laughed at.—Moose is both singular and plural. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

12 " I was going to need help. I knew of only one true source readily available to me. I stopped for a few moments of prayer. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

13 " I didn’t feel comfortable with this new world. My northern isolation had protected me from all this. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

14 " You’re like Jesus,” Susie said, more positively now that she had said the words out loud. “He doesn’t like it when people be bad either. An’ He doesn’t like to send them away—out of heaven. But it would spoil heaven for everybody else if He let bad people in there.” Wynn said nothing, but his eyes looked misty as he reached out to tousle the little black head on his way to the bedroom for his slippers. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

15 " When men don’t have God, they need substitutes. To my way of thinking, whiskey is a poor substitute—but many men depend upon it. But what I am angry about is that they didn’t obey my orders. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

16 " We’ll wire ahead and have your trunks sent back—because I’m not letting you go after them. Trunks or no trunks, you’re staying here—where you belong.” I had no objections. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

17 " We didn’t try to talk. We really didn’t need to. Later we would hear from one another all the details of the four miserable days of separation. For now it was enough just to be together again. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

18 " As I looked at them, I found my mind rushing ahead to the wedding planned for the first part of September, and I wondered what flowers would be available. That was another decision that had to be made. Oh, my! Was there no end to them? It seemed that ever since Wynn had asked me to become his wife, I had been making one decision after the other—some big and some not-so-big. As my thoughts turned to Wynn, I smiled to myself. How fortunate I was to be engaged to marry such a man. He was everything a girl could ever desire—his height, his bearing, his smile, his quiet self-assurance, his caring. And he loved me! I would have gone on and on daydreaming but Kathleen interrupted me. "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

19 " Nimmie, when I realized that I was a sinner, that I could do nothing myself to atone for my sins, I did the only thing one can do—that is necessary to do. I accepted what God has provided for all of mankind—His forgiveness. His forgiveness through the death of His Son, Jesus. He died for our sins so that we need not die for our own. I don’t understand that kind of love either, Nimmie. But I know that it’s real, for I have felt it. When I prayed to God and asked for His forgiveness and took His Son as my Savior, that love filled my whole person. Where I had had misery and fear before, now I have peace and joy.” “And He would do that for me? "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)

20 " Where do you white women get the idea that having a child makes one weak and unable to do one’s own work? "

― Janette Oke , Canadian West Collection (Canadian West #1-6)