Book Quotes

“If we’re open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change out lives…to change us. It might be a laughing child, care brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a schoolteacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe…or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.” --from The Christmas Shoes

“Each of us is destined for something, a purpose that often seems muddy, or vague at best. We want nothing more than to know what our purpose is, to know that we haven’t just been plopped down to fumble our way through to the end, but that there’s a reason for our being here. We may not discover that purpose in the way that we’d want, as time in the valley will be longer and darker than we imagined, but if we are patient or still long enough, we will catch it in fleeting glimpses. We will see tiny sparks of revelation that push us closer and closer to our destiny. There will be pain, sometimes more than we bargained for, but as my mother promised so many years ago, in the end there will be joy. – Nathan Andrews, from The Christmas Blessing