Marjorie Holmes

What feeling in all the world is so nice as that of a child's hand in yours? It is soft. It is…

— Marjorie Holmes

“A vast tenderness swept him, and a great reverence. Now she belonged to him and her face was his to shield. In…

— Marjorie Holmes

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the…

— Marjorie Holmes

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A…

— Marjorie Holmes

May the Christmas season fill your home with joy, your heart with love and your life with laughter.

— Marjorie Holmes

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this…

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Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from…

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Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

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“It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday…

— Marjorie Holmes

My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain…

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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…

— Marjorie Holmes

The man or woman who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

— Marjorie Holmes

some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never…

— Marjorie Holmes

A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

— Marjorie Holmes

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

— Marjorie Holmes

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

— Marjorie Holmes

Christmas quotes It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those…

— Marjorie Holmes

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

— Marjorie Holmes

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

— Marjorie Holmes

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you…

— Marjorie Holmes

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as…

— Marjorie Holmes

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

— Marjorie Holmes

Death is the perfect knowing.

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

— Marjorie Holmes