18 Quotes by Julia Spencer-Fleming

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.

So you worked for the war industry but came to your senses!” [Margy Van Alstyne] darted a glance at her son. “What rank were you?”“I was a captain when I resigned.” [Clare]“Ha!” Margy Van Alstyne’s elbow caught Russ in the solar plexus. “She outranks you, son! Finally, a woman who can boss you around!”“Every woman in my life bosses me around,” he muttered, rubbing his stomach.

Can you tell me what happened, um...” What was he supposed to call her? “Mother?”“I go by Reverend, Chief. Ms. is fine, too.”“Oh. Sorry. I never met a woman priest before.”“We’re just like the men priests, except we’re willing to pull over and ask directions.

Russ told Harlene to patch Mark through to Clare’s if and when he turned up anything.“I’d love to know how you managed to work Reverend Fergusson into this one,” Harlene said.“Reverend Fergusson manages to work herself into these things all on her own,” he said. “She doesn’t need any pushing from me.

You gonna be okay with that idiot car of yours? ...”“I’ve got AAA. They’ll be here. Eventually.”...“Well, if they don’t show, give the station a call and I’ll drive over and jump you.” There was a sort of strangled non-noise. “Jump your car. Jump-start it. The cruisers have incredible batteries.”She started laughing. “Is that a Freudian slip, or are you just happy to see me?

I believe that prayer focuses our human thoughts and energies, sends them to the people we're praying for. I believe that helps, in ways we can't yet understand. I believe that God hears our prayers, and cherishes them. I believe He answers by sending us His spirit, giving us strength, and peace, and insight. I don't think he responds by turning away bullets and curing cancer. Though sometimes that happens.

Dear God, she thought, help me to accept as Christ accepted. Keep my mind on helping, not judging. And remind me to put in a five-mile run this evening.

And as for people shunning us because of our known association with homosexuals”—here she wiggled her eyebrows, because she sounded ridiculously like Joseph McCarthy—“I say we don’t want new members who would think like that. We want people who will admire us for taking a stand and who will say, ‘Yes, that’s Christianity; that’s how I want to live it and that’s the church I want to belong to.