Julie Garwood Quotes

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too 'nutty,' you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that's down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.

I'm a father of three teenage daughters.

If I could give one piece of advice, it would be 'If you're angry with a family member, talk to God about it, not the other members of your family.'

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.

I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

Some of the most intelligent people I've met in my life are priests and pastors; now, a lot of them aren't that, though. Some of the most sanctimonious and hypocritical people I've met are priests and pastors, also.

My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word' (John 17:14). In this book, I believe you will see that he has faithfully spoken God's Word that quenches the thirst of those seeking to draw from the wellsprings of Life. It is highly meaningful to see these statements now collected in one volume.

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.