You disturbed the water in only one tiny place, yet the circle is growing dier and wider until it will reach all the way to the shore.

If you want a fruitful life, it requires a lot of hard work, and daily attention - just like this garden does. But love is the most powerful force there is - Christ's love and our love for one another. It has the power to change us and to save the world.

"Ask God to heal your broken heart. He can put the pieces back together the right way so you'll be able to love your husband the way God does - forgiving him seventy times seven and wanting only the best for him.

Ask God to give you Chirst's love for Horatio, not your own imperfect love."

"Smooth seas don't produce skillfull sailors."

It's the rough waters that train us to be His disciples. He uses the turbulent times in our lives to prepare us for His purposes - if we'll let Him.

"When we don't get our own way, and when our life doesn't turn out the way we think it should, we face a choice. We can let bitterness grow or let the love of God grow."

"Outward beauty can be a distraction for many men. Count it a blessing that you're plain, Harriet. That way, you'll know that a suitor is attracted to the real you, not the fancy wrappings."

"Horatio and I went to Niagara Falls on our honeymoon, and it's a perfect metaphor of what love is like: powerful, beautiful, terrifying, overwhelming - and there's no turning back once you fall over the edge."

"Most people get married for love, Harriet... No, don't make a face. I know you don't understand it now, but someday some lucky man will come along, and when you fall in love with him it will be like plunging over Niagara Falls.

You won't know how you ever lived without him..."

"It's a wonderful thing to fall in love, Beatrice. But make sure that both you and the man you marry love the Lord even more than each other."

I don't know where this is going to lead, but before you get swept away, you need to remember that the strongest marriages are between couples who share the same faith and the same values.

"But I don't agree that men and women are equal, Beatrice. God created us to be different, with different skills and qualities that complement one another.¨

Women don't hace the muscular strength to be blacksmiths and men don't hace the tenderness required to nurture a baby..."

"Women should never use them (tears) as weapons," she always insisted, "especially to prevail upon a man to change his mind."

Your kiss is like sunshine melting away the frost.

Life is like that, Beatrice - always changing, always flowing forward like a stream.

Things never stay the same. And we have to move on and change, too.

"Harriet, don't give your mother a hard time about your party dress.

Let her go ahead and decorate the outside of you. She can't change what's on the inside, you know - and that's the most important part of you.

Only God can change you on the inside."

We need to live each day as if it was a gift. God gives us that gift every morning when the sun rises, like the tickets they give out when you ride on the train.

Do you want the secret of contentment? (...)

We need to live each day as if it was a gift. God gives us that gift every morning when the sun rises, like the tickets they give out when you ride on the train (...)

That ticket is only good for today. Yesterday is gone and that ticket is used up. We don't have a ticket for tomorrow because life has no guarantees.

Each day is a gift. When the sun comes up, we need to ask the Lord, "What would you like me to do for you today?" That's how you'll find contentment.

God is going to give you a task to do in your own time and place. Then you'll have to put your faith in Him as you follow your conscience.

That's why I wanted you to come with me today. We grow stronger every time our faith is tested. That's how we learn to trust Him.

I was a keen observer, however, absorbing everything that went on around me as I began drawing a map for my life.

"Grip the rudder and steer, Harriet. Don't just drift gently down the stream.

If you don't have a map, you might run aground somewhere or end up crushed against the rocks. Always know where you're headed."