15 Quotes by Amy Hollingsworth

At last I had it: Fred’s intense devotion to the disenfranchised, to the least of these, arose from the realization that he was one of them.

An old supply pastor, many years before, had taught him that: What is offered in faith by one person can be translated by the Holy Spirit into what the other person needs to hear and see. The space between them is holy ground, and the Holy Spirit uses that space in ways that not only translate, but transcend.

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence.

He taught me that taking one’s time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.

Well, you know, I’m passionate about that. I just feel that we need to help children from the earliest time to realize that there are ways that they can express how they feel, ways that aren’t hurtful.

I wonder if you don’t have somebody in your life that just the very thought of that person makes you feel better. It would be wonderful if you could take a minute, at least a minute every day, to think of such a person. Just think. Just be quiet and think. It would make all the difference in the world.