Top 120 Roseanna M. White Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The world may still look dark, but if photography had taught her anything, it was that there was always more light to be found. Sometimes you just needed to change your lens. And sometimes you need a flash. Neither ever changed what was really there... but it showed it in a new way.”

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52. “But Batya used to say that the difference between a wise man and a fool was not that the wise man was right and the fool was wrong – but that the fool always assumed himself right, and the wise man would wonder if he could be wrong. We cannot learn from our mistakes and grow wiser if we never admit to the times we’ve chosen the wrong path.”

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53. “My sweet Libby. You’re not alone. You’re never alone.”

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54. “He’d stolen her heart right out of her chest when she wasn’t looking, and she hadn’t the foggiest idea how to get it back. And didn’t want to. He’d take better care of it than she ever could anyway.”

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55. “It was a reminder to me of what His salvation really means. I think... I think too often we compare our souls and our sins to a grass stain. We think that His sacrifice is sufficient to knock off the clumps and blades clinging to the outside of us, but not quite strong enough to get rid of the stain in the fabric.”

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56. “But shame Senara... it’s for a purpose. It’s there to strike our consciences, to remind us of the standard of the Lord. It’s there to let us know we’ve sinned.”

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57. “He knows your name. Not Libby, not Elizabeth Sinclair. Your true name, the one at the heart of you that has never been spoken. He knows you, and He calls you by it. You, in all your uniqueness. You, in all that makes you different from others. You, in all that you have in common with them. He knows you, and He calls you by name. He knows how you fit into this world.”

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58. “She sneaked another look at his lordship. Handsome enough, yes. But he was a blithering dunderhead.”

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59. “And after the repentance comes the truly hard part – you must learn how to let the shame go. It has its purpose, a right and needful one. It can... return us to God. But if we’re not careful, it can just as easily carry us away and drown us.”

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60. “Brook trailed a gloved hand along the door, cast one glance over her shoulder, and let herself in. She couldn’t stop the grin as she gripped the wheel of the Rolls-Royce. And why should she? Only a fool would leave such a car running right outside her door and not except her to do something about it.”

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61. “Even if you have upset her... sometimes we need to be upset. Sometimes that’s the only thing that will convince us to let down our walls and allow someone in. Or even to turn to God.”

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62. “We need happy stories in the midst of trials. They keep us going. Remind us of what we’re struggling for.”

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63. “That we ought to stop worrying that our every word is wrong and instead let the Master Craftsman wield us however He will. There may be stray chisel marks, the times we slip. But He’ll still set the stone where it belongs. We just need to remember our lives are a monument to Him, not to ourselves.”

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64. “Then your next step must be to repent of it. And I don’t mean the cursory “I’m sorry” that we let children get away with. You have to mean it, dear one. You must regret not just your own pain, but the grief you’ve caused.”

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65. “They didn’t pretend to understand what drove each other, but they’d still be along for the ride. They were family.”

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66. “I think the truth always changes us. I think it always should.”

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67. “He can whisper the future to His prophets. He can send and heal plagues. He can raise the dead.”

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68. “Because let me just tell you, Daddy your blood doesn’t have that power. There’s only one Man’s blood in all of history that can make us better than we are-and your are not Him.”

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69. “Sins committed together are also committed against each other... And against the Lord. Repenting to Him is sometimes the easiest part. But He asks us to make right what we can too. That generally means facing those we’ve wronged.”

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70. “How strange were regrets. So many things she hated, yet without them, things she loved would never have been.”

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71. “He does not ask everyone to give all they have. But if He does, are we willing?”

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72. “Her best weapons were the books – and she was going to use them well.”

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73. “We must be still – not our hands and feet, but our minds. And know that He is God. That He has not changed. That the same Lord who loved us when all is well loves us still when all is lost. His promises are as true today as they were yesterday. He has been enough to see people through the worst since the dawn of time. We must trust that His love is enough to see us through now.”

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74. “He’d grown accustomed to the yawning emptiness in his own life. Perhaps it always chafed like imagined sackcloth, but like sackcloth in the scriptures, he’d decided at some point in the last months that it ought to be a reminder to fall to his knees. Perhaps the cup given him wasn’t happiness, but rather holiness. Perhaps he could do as a man of prayer all that he’d failed to do as a man of action.”

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75. “The islands know your names they know all of us who love them.”

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76. “A library! ” Of course a house this size would have one, but how could she have been here a complete day already with day finding it?”

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77. “If it were so simple, Goebbels wouldn’t have ordered me here, would he have? If books had no power, they never would have been banned.”

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78. “Love really was like a bird. You didn’t know where it might settle, or where. You couldn’t tame it, couldn’t force it. Couldn’t often predict it. You could call and call for it and never would it flutter down. Then, at the most unexpected time, in the most unexpected place, it was there.”

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79. “Yes, you see, we take part in this bizarre social ritual called conversation. You should give it a try sometime.”

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80. “But God’s world – that was an endless feast of the truest beauty.”

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81. “Just as Rem stood now by her side, never truly gone, so too would this wreck of a forest reclaim life. God had created it that way – to rebound from any ruin that man could wreak. To grow again. Thrive again. Cover over the scars with new life. That was what God’s creation did, plant and animal and man.”

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82. “He looked up now and caught her gaze – which had again gone his way, blast it all. Smiled. Bother. Drat. Blast.”

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83. “That takes a special kind of heart. To love where hatred would come so naturally and so deservedly.”

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84. “But He loves us, as does the Father. Because we are valuable. And the blood of Christ, when it washes us clean, fully restores us to what He created us to be.”

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85. “Because he’s Ainsley. Everyone needs an Ainsley in their lives. If I didn’t have his lectures keeping me straight, just imagine the mess I’d be.”

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86. “Maybe there never was a winning team, not really. Not when war was tanks and guns and trenches instead of laughter and innocence.”

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87. “We’re never restored fully, whole again, after we lose someone. We just learn to go on with the pieces missing.”

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88. “She couldn’t change much about this life she’d been given, the yesterdays that dictated today and tomorrow. But she could do this. She could look at things in that way God had given her.”

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89. “Books didn’t burn. Books ignited. They lit the burning in others. Not with paper and match. With ideas.”

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90. “We can trust that His promises are always true, because they have always been true.”

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91. “Patience. That’s what this glass and silver and shell had taught her over the years. Patience was what wore old broken bottles into bits of color and light. Patience what created those shells, wore them away again, tossed them onto the shore... And patience had rewarded her here too.”

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92. “And had come to realize, through their daily games, that he wasn’t quite the monster she’d thought him at first. That a uniform didn’t make a man by nature a friend or an enemy.”

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93. “It’s you that see people, Oliver. Sees them truly, sees them clearly. Sees them with purpose – and that purpose is to care.”

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94. “Wondering is an entirely different pastime for you, I think. You can turn it into something more than worry.”

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95. “Because I’m here. What’s the point of coming to a place if you don’t learn about it? It’s half the fun.”

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96. “Well, if you’re giving me a choice – I’ll take the flirting.”

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97. “He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder: he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.”

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98. “Black and white could lie. She knew that better than anyone. It was no great thing at all to take what was there, cut it out, and put it somewhere else instead, where it meant something entirely different.”

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99. “She’d do what she could to make life a little sweeter for the people around her. She’d live until she didn’t anymore.”

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100. “And I would sooner die of hunger and fly into the arms of my Savior than feast like a queen in the company of the devil.”

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