Donna VanLiere

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Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope in God It cannot permeate the soul And it cannot cripple the spirit It merely separates us for a while That is the only power death can claim --No more
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Memories
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If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Use
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It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Care
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If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Life
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I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Breathing
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The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Dream
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I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: People
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Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.
- Donna VanLiere
Collection: Crazy