Quotes by Faith Baldwin

About Faith Baldwin:

Faith Baldwin was a U.S. author of romance and fiction, publishing some 100 novels, often concentrating on women juggling career and family. The New York Times said that her books had "never a pretense at literary significance" and were popular because they "enabled lonely working people, young and old, to identify with her glamorous and wealthy characters."
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I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritual...

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I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little e...

Faith Baldwin

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

Faith Baldwin

What I have learned from the year past is something about miracles--miracles of healing and answered prayer and unexpected happy endings. Each came quietly and simply, on tiptoe, so that I hardly knew it had occurred. All this makes me realize that m...

Faith Baldwin

Praying, we usually ask too much. I know I do. Sometimes we even demand. I think I am learning to ask enough for the moment--not for the whole year, utterly veiled in mystery; not even for the week, the month ahead; but just for today. Jesus said it ...

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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Faith Baldwin

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin

Author Bio

  • NameFaith Baldwin
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornOctober 1, 1893
  • DiedMarch 18, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist