
Top 23 Marjorie Holmes Quotes
#1. My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.
Marjorie Holmes
#2. Poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
Marjorie Holmes
#3. There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time ... A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.
Marjorie Holmes
#4. I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.
Scott Bradfield
#6. A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes
#7. Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
Marjorie Holmes
#8. One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.
Marjorie Holmes
#9. The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Marjorie Holmes
#10. Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.
Marjorie Holmes
#11. Vision (know what you want)
Passion (know why you want it)
Commitment (know how you're going to get there)
Renee Rearden
#12. When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.
Howard Bahr
#13. What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Marjorie Holmes
#14. Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
Marjorie Holmes
#15. Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.
Rachel Cohn
#17. When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
Marjorie Holmes
#18. Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own.
Marjorie Holmes
#19. It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
Marjorie Holmes
#20. Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
Marjorie Holmes
#22. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
Marjorie Holmes
#23. And I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home," to hear someone you love call your name.
Leah Stewart
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