Jane Kirkpatrick Quotes

Don't deny the dreams. They're a gift given to make your life full. Accept them. Reach for them. We are not here just to endure hard times until we die. We are here to live, to serve, to trust, and to create out of our longings.

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“The visionary mind takes many turns before settling on any specific path.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment have a piece of paradise right here on earth. God offers healing through flowers and brings us closer to Him.

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“The essential code must include . . . how to crawl from the wreckage when this life falters, how to plunge to the cellar of sorrow and grope for the ladder that might bring you back into some kind of light, no matter how dim or strange.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

Change isn't the end ... It's an unfolding, the beginning of something different.

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“Have you ever been through a painful season in life and wished for something new, something fresh, or even something healing to come along? Take this journey with Robin Price, a widow and single mother with a big heart and passion for those closest to her as she wades through trying to live, let go, and love again. Wishing on Willows is a story of hope that will find you stepping up to the willow tree and daring to make wishes”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.”

— Jane Kirkpatrick