Quotes from Elizabeth George

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

When you study God's Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

To know God's will is man's greatest treasure; to do His will is life's greatest privilege.

It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.

God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

If a couple isn't following God's guidelines for life or being led by the Holy Spirit, disagreements and misunderstandings skyrocket.

Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health.

Wenn die Menschen ihren Lebensweg beschreiten, fängt es immer dann an schiefzulaufen, sobald sie den Teil ihrer selbst vernachlässigen, der ihren Geist nährt. Ohne diese Nahrung stirbt der Geist, und es ist Teil unserer Verantwortung für uns selbst, das nicht zuzulassen.

Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

if I am faithfully and regularly acknowledging my sin to God, it's much easier to apologize to my husband because I'm already in the habit of saying "I'm sorry" to God.

Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

When we accept God's invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

Imagine placing God foremost in your heart each morning and striking out on His path for your day, deliberately living for Him. As you commit yourself to God each day, He will work in your heart!

I find that people aren't all one thing. One rather wishes they were for simplicity's sake, but isn't the truth that people are good and bad, simple and complicated, happy and sad, frightened and courageous? It's all a mix. We learn to take in everything about a person as disparate parts to the whole, and it's the whole that we love, even at moments when the other isn't who we wish her to be.

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.