In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.