If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open i...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that wr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a dete...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Novels were designed to entertain, and those of us who wish to keep the art form alive need to keep ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The art of writing is what you get to do once to do become familiar with the craft.
ELIZABETH GEORGE There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.
ELIZABETH GEORGE One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomp...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Writing was the way I felt most complete. It really has always fulfilled a need for creative balance...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.
ELIZABETH GEORGE When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.
ELIZABETH GEORGE The Witch of Blackbird Pond
ELIZABETH GEORGE The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My jo...
ELIZABETH GEORGE So why do we worry? Why do we worry about food and clothing About finances and money? About security...
ELIZABETH GEORGE It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out you...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expressi...
ELIZABETH GEORGE She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear...
ELIZABETH GEORGE God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.
ELIZABETH GEORGE True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what’s done for Christ will last.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The popularity of poker is absolutely phenomenal. It is head and shoulders over other types of colle...
ELIZABETH GEORGE No one can give another human being the soul of an artist, the sensibility of a writer, or the passi...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided b...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that wr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her l...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Remember to take time for God—it is life’s only lasting investment.
ELIZABETH GEORGE What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth�...
ELIZABETH GEORGE God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's...
ELIZABETH GEORGE It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do...
ELIZABETH GEORGE We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden fr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sac...
ELIZABETH GEORGE A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.
ELIZABETH GEORGE The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.
ELIZABETH GEORGE God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God’s plan for you.
ELIZABETH GEORGE The Bible is the most important part of your faith.
ELIZABETH GEORGE What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
ELIZABETH GEORGE I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I wri...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
ELIZABETH GEORGE While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have ha...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a no...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
ELIZABETH GEORGE When you view yourself through the lens of God’s Word, you will better understand God’s love for...
ELIZABETH GEORGE When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our fines...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every d...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
ELIZABETH GEORGE The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.

Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to c...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE Tell them the truth if you like," responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?"

ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter t...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
ELIZABETH SCOTT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT