Best 15 quotes of Lawana Blackwell on MyQuotes

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

Valley's don't last forever... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

What if love wasn’t a mysterious “thing” that capriciously attached itself to whomever it willed? Could it be instead a deliberate choice of action? Jesus had commanded His followers to “love one another.” Would He give such a commandment if people had no control over their ability to love? And does that mean that romantic love between a man and woman can be cultivated, just as Mrs. Kingston cultivates her roses? She recalled standing at a window facing the Anwyl and determining that, like Saint Paul, she would learn contentment. If contentment could be achieved through an act of will, then why couldn’t love? And it would seem that a love purposely cultivated for a man because of his kind nature and comforting ways would eventually grow stronger and deeper than one based on mere physical attraction.

When we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process. When my husband passed away, I discovered that my relationship with God had been a shallow one at best, and that I had no reservoir of inner strength to draw from.