Olive Ann Burns said this quote

They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'... He laughed. I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.

~ Olive Ann Burns

We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to.

~ Olive Ann Burns

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

~ Olive Ann Burns

Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege.Miss Love really laughed. There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!

~ Olive Ann Burns