Marjorie Holmes Quotes

• Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

  Marjorie Holmes

  Life, Blessing, Thinking

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

  People, Remember, Let Me

  Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations with God”, Bantam

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• 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

  Writing, Heart, Dark

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• 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

  Home, Special, Together

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Friendship, Men, Gold

  "Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter".

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• 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

  Prayer, Blessing, Joy

  Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've/Talk/Somebd/God”, Bantam Books

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• Death is the perfect knowing.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Death, Knowing, Perfect

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• What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a rabbit or a puppy or a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Children, Nice, Hands

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

  Mistake, Cutting, Acceptance

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

  Beauty, Taken, Self

  Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Children, Selfish, Nice

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• poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Heart, Poetry, Way

  Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

  Sheep, People, Religion

  Marjorie Holmes (1985). “I'Ve Got to Talk to Somebody, God: A Woman's Conversations With God”, Doubleday Books

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• Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Life, Memories, Men

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• 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

  Racing, Age, One Day

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Strength, Mom, Mother

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• 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

  Life, Mistake, Rain

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• Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Prayer, Thinking, Persons

  Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've/Talk/Somebd/God”, Bantam Books

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