339 Quotes by Elizabeth George

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God’s intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God’s plan.

If your home is a ministry, shouldn’t that ministry become a passion? Shouldn’t your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn’t your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!

Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

But if you don’t understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

I’m interested in the dark side of man. I’m interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

Remember to take time for God – it is life’s only lasting investment.

I don’t think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

When we acknowledge God’s supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

It’s one thing to have a goal, but it’s quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.