Quotes by Laurel Lee

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

I feel the garment of Christ being pulled over our shoulders. I am new... I finally sleep, wrapped in the beauty of the word, Savior.

I never dreamed of publication and I never thought about success. Sometimes I wonder what it is doing to me as a person. I really value being good.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.