Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Easter is never deserved.
And it can be a way of healing.
Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!
Food is a great way of communicating.
Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
Lord, make me a blessing to someone today
Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.
Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.
I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.
I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!
In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'
Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.