Donna VanLiere > Quotes

“It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.”
― Donna VanLiere, Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again

“Grief never ends … But it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Light

“I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Note

“Death's power is limited --
It cannot eradicate memories
Or slay love
It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith
Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God
It cannot permeate the soul
And it cannot cripple the spirit
It merely separates us for a while
That is the only power death can claim
--No more”
― Donna VanLiere

“If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes.
Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe.
And I always will.”
― Donna VanLiere

“I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.”
― Donna VanLiere, Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again

“Am I crazy Loretta?"
"A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Shoes

“I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Shoes

“Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough?”
― Donna VanLiere, Finding Grace

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. —C. S. Lewis It”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Shoes

“Meghan and I talked about music - she loved Ella Fitzgerald. "What about all the hip acts that college kids love? Do you like any of them?"

"Like who?"

"I don't know all their names. Snoop Diggity Do and all those hip cats." Meghan shook her head and laughed. We talked about movies - she loved anything made before 1964. No wonder I thought she was older; she was an old soul in a young body.

"So what's your favorite movie?" I asked.

"To Kill a Mockingbird." My mother would have liked Meghan. She made my father and me watch To Kill a Mockingbird with her when I was in first grade. It must have been the twentieth time she'd seen it, but she still cried at the parts that made her weepy-eyed the first nineteen times.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Blessing

“Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town

“Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing"
“Don’t ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you’ll never make it to the END.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Blessing

“There comes a time when you don't know what your capable of anymore. Looking back, you can remember what you were capable of then, how you thought, what you did, who you loved, who people said you were. Then something happens and takes all that away, the basket of good intentions you've been toting around, the trunk of dreams you've been pulling behind you, all of its gone in an instant, and its just you, naked, bare, exposed.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. —Eugene O’Neill My”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Shoes

“So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Light

“Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town

“Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown”
― Donna VanLiere

“Everybody wants to know why we’re here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, ‘Here I am.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town

“If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...”
― Donna VanLiere

“It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence … —HELEN KELLER”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Light

“Over the years I've buried pain as easy as I've buried happiness.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream

“Сказать себе: "Я верю", - все равно, что выпустить тигра из клетки.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Note

“What would I do without him and Hailey? What would I be without them? I watched him breathe and knew in that half lit bedroom what I lacked and what I failed to give my children. I sensed it was what the coffee and pastry lady desired more than anything else and what she would give to taste it. It was a whisper in the soul, a lump in the throat, and an echo in the deep and hidden places of the heart. It was the hope that we are loved, truly loved and that we are known. It was what I wanted more than anything.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Secret

“Little boys and girls should grow up amazed at how a fish breathes or how a flower opens up to the sun and then goes to bed at night or how the wind moves.”
― Donna VanLiere, The Good Dream