21 Quotes by Donna VanLiere

Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown

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?

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.

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.

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What’s unpredictable is how he will do it.

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.

I’ve always been a very good judge of people. That’s why I like so very few of them.