This page contains quotes people
sent to me that they really liked. I wasn't quite sure where
to put them so I started this category. If you have an idea
about a category they should go under let me know. ~~Jenni
"People are too busy to meet themselves anymore. Everybody's
faxing, modeming, on-lining, inputting, downloading, and
overnighting. You can send anything to anybody, anywhere in
the world, in seconds. But it still takes the same amount of
time it always took to know a soul." ~~Tess, Cassie's Choice
"No such thing as late. Destiny picks its own time." ~~Tess, An Unexpected Snow (WAS)
"Evil thrives when good men do nothing." ~~Tess & Monica,
In the Name of God
"A coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous."
~~Tess, Sins of the Father
"There comes a time in the life of every young girl when she
sees her mother not as a mother, but as another woman, whose
heart can be broken" ~~Monica, Angels on the Air
"How come when you talk to God, you're praying, but when God
talks to you, you're nuts?" ~~Monica, Jacob's Ladder
"Ya know, sometimes in, umm, in
the course of human events... one man's history actually is
another man's future." ~~Andrew, The Sign of the Dove
"Remember, my darling, pride goeth before the fall." ~~Tess, There, But for the Grace of God
"Whatever you do, stay away from coffee. I've got enough
trouble with one angel right now. She's away picking coffee
beans. Can't get enough of those double mocha lattes." ~~Tess,
Angel of Death
"He's not a mutt! He's a special blend, like this coffee you
drink." ~~Tess, about her dog, Angel of Death
"Trying to make sense of evil will only give you a headache.
Evil is for evil's sake, period. It's only goal is chaos and
destruction." ~~Tess, Lost
and Found
"That's why God gives us inspiration. He puts into our spirit
things that could not come out of our own minds.” ~~Monica, Psalm 151
"You're a servant of God before you're a servant of your own
heart. That's how you were made, and that's the difference
between humans and angels." ~~Monica to Andrew, Til Death Do Us Part
"Bowl. He wants us to bowl. Just bowl. Ours is not to reason
why. Ours is to take a ball that's too heavy, and throw it
down an alley that's too narrow, and hit some pins that are
too far away." ~~Tess, The
Perfect Game (I)
"There's bowling, and then there's Tess Bowling. You throw
that ball hard enough, those pins'll go down just to keep from
getting hit." ~~Tess, The
Perfect Game (I)
"Please, just let me stay.' I would rather be a doorkeeper in
the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked'."
~~Monica to the Angel of Angels in Clipped Wings (Scripture quote from Psalms
84)
"God understands how disappointing children can be. His
children have stolen from Him and lied to him and broken
promises just about every day. But God doesn't stop being who
He is to excuse them. It's the only way they'll grow." ~~Tess,
Living The Rest Of My Life
"Claire was sent there to save lives. And she chose to
do that to the end. Now, *that*, Monica, is a real
angel." ~~ Jake, Jacob's
Ladder
Marshall: So where do angels go?
Andrew: We move on.
(from The Quality of Mercy)
"If there's anything we should know it's how delicate life
is. How little things cause big things." ~~ Monica, Out of the Darkness
"It takes a special man to step in and fill a father's shoes
and call the child his own." ~~ Monica, Groundrush
Andrew: We're in the middle of an assignment here and you're
acting like you're the president of somebody's fan club.
Monica: Well, maybe that's what angels are sometimes.
(from Groundrush)
"Nothing meaningful ever really gets forgotten. It can
always be found by those willing to look." ~~ Tess, Forget Me Not
"Music is worth a lot more than money." ~~Andrew, Inherit the Wind
“Life with out feeling isn’t
really life and with out God you can’t really feel.” ~~Rafael,
Sandcastles
"God has given us beauty to fill
the people's souls." ~~Tess, Lady of the Lake
"Mothers are one of God's
greatest miracles." ~~Monica, The Wind Beneath My Wings
"Sometimes it only takes a minute to change
everything." ~~Andrew, The Medium and the Message
"Music is the universal
language." ~~Monica, Made in the U.S.A.
"The connection between a mother
and daughter is one of the great gifts of God. It's also
one of the great mysteries of life." ~~Monica, Hearts
"People hold onto a lot of things
not for what the thing is but for the way it makes them feel."
~~Tess, The Christmas Gift
"God don't like ugly." ~~Gabe, The Christmas Gift
"There's nothing about a woman's
heart that God doesn't understand." ~~Monica, Buy Me a Rose
"Angels are not created from human love but from a
simple whisper of the Father." ~~Monica, Life Before Death
"Art is a human being's attempt
to explain his soul to the world." ~~Andrew, Here I Am
"Art is God's way of expressing Himself through human
beings." ~~Andrew, Here I
Am
"He knows the art you create is
your way of calling Home to the Father and saying 'Here I
am!'" ~~Monica, Here I Am
"Teenagers don't feel like
they're typical. They think they're uniquely odd."
~~Tess, Quality Time
"Into each family a little
dysfunction must fall." ~~Tess, Living the Rest of My Life
"Every time a baby is born it's
the most beautiful thing that can ever happen." ~~Monica, Pandora's Box
"Every baby is a precious miracle sent from God."
~~Monica, Pandora's Box
"When one voice stops, God will
always raise up other voices to take up the song."
~~Monica, The Invitation
"God
didn't
give people free will so angels can come down in a crisis and
take their choice away... You can show them the way, but
you can't drag em down the road." ~~Andrew, The Grudge
"Christmas is a night of
miracles." ~~Andrew, An Angel on My Tree
"Bringing people peace is part of
an angel's job." ~~Andrew, The
Sign of the Dove
"Even
if you try to put Christmas out of your mind, God won't let
you. Because that's what Christmas is: Immanuel: God
with us." ~~Monica, A Winter Carol
"I
believe children are a gift from God. And if you're
ready to accept that gift, He can handle the complications."
~~Monica, For All the Tea
in China
"There's
no such thing as coincidence." ~~Andrew, A Rock and a Hard Place
"Your mom is more than just your mom. She's a real
person who can get her heart broken, too." ~~Andrew, Bring on the Rain
"God bless you, my friend."
~~Sam, Remembering Me, Part
I
"There are no coincidences with God... all of this is somehow
connected." ~~Monica, Remembering
Me, Part II
"When you know that something's
drawing to an end, it can make it sweeter." ~~Monica, The Christmas Watch
"A man wants to see a last ray of
sunshine before dark." ~~Andrew, Private Eyes
"People don't always like to do what's good for them.
Sometimes it takes an angel to make those brussell sprouts
more appealing." ~~Andrew, Private
Eyes
"Sometimes even an angel has to
get dirty." ~~Andrew, Private
Eyes
"God sends angels to people for all sorts of reasons."
~~Gloria, A
Time for Every Purpose
"No matter how horrible it gets here sometimes, people still
expect miracles. And for the angels who deliver them to
be less than the best God has to offer is wrong." ~~Monica, As It Is In Heaven
"The ability to touch someone's life with music is a wonderful
gift. It's as if there's a golden thread between you and
the audience, and you take in their emotion and you give back
your own." ~~Monica, A Song
for My Father
"You can still make a joyful noise unto the Lord. You
can still make music with whatever instrument you have."
~~Tess, A Song for My
Father
On Satan: "You and I both know
that he's not gonna win the war... sometimes he wins the
battle." ~~Andrew, I Will
Walk with You, Part II
"Sometimes memories keep people harmonizing together
long after the music is over." ~~Tess, What are Friends For?
"Children have a wonderful way of bringing people
together, don't they?" ~~Monica, Lady of the Lake
"God is waiting for you." ~~Monica, Fool for Love
"God doesn't waste any time." ~~Monica, Fool for Love
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