Ruth Bell Graham

“Let God be God. Let Him be the potter and don't try to be the clay.”

“A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

“God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful.”

“If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.”

“If you have a rebellious child, don't give up. You haven't seen the end of the story.”

“It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be.”

“A marriage is between two people who are to be one, yet who are to remain two.”

“Stop trying to make me a saint. I'm not.”

“Our children are not our own. They are loaned to us for a while to mold and shape, but the final product is God's.”

“We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.”

“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”

“A crisis is an opportunity to be refined.”