1. Source unknown.
2. Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, trans. Mary Louise Hendee (New York: McClure, Philips, 1904), 55.
3. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 91.
4. James Dobson, When God Doesn’t Makes Sense (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 1993), 83.
5. Ibid.
6. Phillip Keller, David: The Shepherd King (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1986).
7. Oswald Chambers, Shade of His Hand in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 2000), 1223.
8. Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture V: The Hero as Man of Letters: Johnson, Rousseau, Burns,” in On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures (London: James Fraser, 1841), 285.
9. Paraphrased from Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1994), 200.
10. Ibid.
11. Darlene Marie Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez for Women (Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah, 2002), 39.
12. Barbara Holland, preface to Endangered Pleasures (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995), xii.
13. Oswald Chambers, The Moral Foundations of Life in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers, 732.
14. Oswald Chambers, Our Brilliant Heritage in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers, 955.
15. Dobson, When God Doesn’t Make Sense, 17.
16. Keller, David: The Shepherd King, 183.
17. C. S. Lewis, A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Reading from His Classic Works (Harper San Francisco, 2003), 374.
18. Although this line is frequently attributed to Mark Twain, evidence suggests that the original author may well be unknown.
19. Larry R. Valorozo, title unknown, Adventist World, April 26, 2016, 45.
20. Sue Monk Kidd, “I Don’t Want to Be a Mother Today!” (n.p., n.d.).
21. Dobson, When God Doesn’t Make Sense, 199.
22. Charles Swindoll, Come before Winter and Share My Hope (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1985), 154.
23. Source unknown.
24. Amos Wells, Little Sermons for One (Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavors, 1898), 36.
25. Elizabeth George, A Young Woman after God’s Own Heart (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2003), 97.
26. Keller, David: The Shepherd King, 164.
27. Quoted in Elizabeth George, A Woman after God’s Own Heart (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2006), 143.
28. Kashena Violet, “Most Times I Forget,” Beginnings 16 (publication of adult student writing of the Ohio Writers’ Conference, n.d.), 80.
29. Hester H. Cholmondeley, “Betrayal,” in Baker’s Pocket Treasury of Religious Verse, comp. Donald T. Kauffman (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1980), 136.
30. Quoted in Swindoll, Come before Winter, 489–91.
31. Daniel Crawford, Not Lawful to Utter: And Other Bible Readings (New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), 110.
32. Helen Steiner Rice, “The Way to God,” in A Collection of Faith, Hope and Love (Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour, 2012).
33. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 125.
34. Oswald Chambers, He Shall Glorify Me in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers, 516.
35. Lisa Harper, Stumbling into Grace (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011), 133.
36. Theodore Roosevelt, The Foes of Our Own Household (New York: George H. Doran, 1917), 256.
37. Source unknown.
38. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “As a Man Soweth” no. 318 in 742 Heartwarming Poems, comp. and ed. John Rice (Murfreesboro, TN: Sword of the Lord, 1964).
39. A. B. Simpson quoted in L. B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997), 199.
40. Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture V: The Hero as Man of Letters,” in On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, 314.