104 Quotes by Roma Downey

The Beatles were right. All you need is love. Love makes a family, not DNA or background. Love. Just love. Simply love.

I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm’s length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

I’d love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it’s a wonder you can squeeze in anything.

This is the essence of faith, isn’t it? To keep hold of the knowledge that this isn’t the end, that there is a promise of heaven, that God can redeem even the most difficult circumstances.

I’ve found that it is in those very moments of darkness that God can come in. In the dark is when His light can shine the brightest. For when we are struggling, unable to hold it all together, is when we surrender. And that is when He can finally pick us up and carry us.

There is a holiness about your tears. Each one is a prayer that only God can understand. KATHE WUNNENBURG.

The redemption of our losses doesn’t make the pain go away; it doesn’t mean the loss didn’t happen. But it does mean that, in even the darkest moment, there can be light again.

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I’ve been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

I’m the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.