Quotes from Love's Reckoning

“Tears glinted in her eyes. "I want no secrets between us, Silas."

"No secrets," he echoed, his mouth near the gentle curve of her ear. "Then you should know I can hardly breathe for thinking of you. You're the most maddening lass I've ever known, and every day without you near is an agony to me." Taking her face between his hands, he moved to kiss her, but the sound of approaching horses gave him pause.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“That she was thirsty for heavenly things, there could be no doubt.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“I'd rather wear out than rust out," he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Samuel Johnson”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Gardening is the purest human pleasure. Francis Bacon”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“His fiddle weeps, she thought, yet it wooed her with its sweetness, warm as a lover’s touch.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“She’d already memorized the short Psalm and was hungry for more. Indeed, each word seemed woven into her soul the way the weaver wove his wares, taking the barest threads of her faith and making something beautiful and enduring as fine cloth deep inside her.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Christ's kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Distance lends enchantment to the view. English proverb”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

“Are there any churches in the wilderness?” “Aye, the one I’ll build you.” His gaze held hers thoughtfully. “Christ’s kingdom has no frontier, ye ken.”
― Laura Frantz, quote from Love's Reckoning

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