Marjorie Holmes Quotes

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Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

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Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

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Poetry... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

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Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence....

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One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you — and nobody even notices.

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Gray are the rains of March, yet paving the streets with silver, mirroring the lights of passing cars, and soaking the trees black as shining knights in suits of mail.

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Simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

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The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

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A vast tenderness swept him, and a great reverence. Now she belonged to him and her face was his to shield. In regret and joy he draped her, his personal Torah, which now must be returned to the ark to await their covenant.

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The forsythias leap into yellow flame. Their fires are purest gold, like fronds of sunshine congealed, thin as lace.

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[The stars] are more than reflected on the water, they are doubled and tripled in brilliance as the wind stirs, as if combing them through its black hair.

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Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

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The October breeze catches the cold wet sheets you are hanging on the line. Leaves fall, and trees keep up a gentle undulating dance of branches, like old people nodding their heads in resignation as the children leave home.

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What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is small and warm. It is as innocent and guileless as a rabbit or a puppy or a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

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All the trees are furred with it, the smallest branches bearing their precious ermine carefully against the wind. Now and then glinting veils of it come cascading down, and the trees become graceful dancers, half-hidden, half-revealed through wheeling draperies.

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My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.

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[Winter trees] are like tall-bodied women dancing unclothed in the tingling embrace of sky and wind.

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There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time.... A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

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