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With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

Elizabeth George

Peace, Heart, Knowing

Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.72, Harvest House Publishers

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Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Elizabeth George

Priorities, Each Day

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Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

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Each Day, Kingdoms, Serving God

Elizabeth George (2013). “Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart”, p.28, Harvest House Publishers

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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

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Art, Writing, America

Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.

Elizabeth George

Attitude, Real, Negative

Elizabeth George (1998). “Loving God with All Your Mind”, Harvest House Pub

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Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.

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Attitude, Reflection, Life Is

Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.12, Harvest House Publishers

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There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

Elizabeth George

Easy Answers, Answers, Easy

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Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

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Spiritual, Numbness, Apathy

Elizabeth George (2014). “A Woman's Walk with God: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit”, p.143, Harvest House Publishers

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Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

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Joy, Soil, Hindrance

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A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

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Godly, Average, Community

Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.13, Harvest House Publishers

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Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

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Dust, Delight, Answers

Elizabeth George (2012). “A Woman's Daily Walk with God”, p.28, Harvest House Publishers

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When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

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Gone, Way, Bows

Elizabeth George (1998). “Loving God with All Your Mind”, Harvest House Pub

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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.

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Dream, Reality, Men

Elizabeth George (2010). “A Great Deliverance”, p.413, Bantam

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The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

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Children, Flower, Garden

Elizabeth George (2005). “A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children”, p.53, Harvest House Publishers

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As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

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Accepting, Easier, Knowing God

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What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.

Elizabeth George

Mother, Children, Heart

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Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Elizabeth George

Writing, Character, Stories

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Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean.

Elizabeth George

Writing, Mean, Nails

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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

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Character, Emotional, Atmosphere

"The detective's great tapestry" by John Cunningham, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2000.

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But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

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Inspiration, Character, Ideas

Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.4, Harper Collins

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Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

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Prayer, Light, Asking

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When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

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Well Being, Wells, Glorify

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For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

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Mean, Modern Novel, Skills

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Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.

Elizabeth George

Children, Mistake, Wish

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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

Elizabeth George

Jobs, Book, Writing

Elizabeth George (2011). “Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life”, p.245, Hachette UK

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