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It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman QUOTES

It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman QUOTES

1 " I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them. "

― Patricia Mulcahy , It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman

2 " What's important for me now is the same thing it always was - compassion. I can't think of anything more important. I've loved my fellow citizens. I've loved my children. I'm happy with the opportunity I've had to worship the way I want to worship. I'm not worshipping somebody else's God, but I am insisting on the ability to worship my way, and be the person He would have me be. "

― , It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman