What Matters Most Quotes

“faith: belief in light of the absence of proof, enlightenment received through prayer, and that which is seen and unseen….”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“Be ready for the gift you least expect. Every day. It’s the only way to live….”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“That was really it, her message as a nun and a child of God: listen deeply to your heart. That was how and where God communicated with people. Not so much in burning bushes or on mountaintops, in blue grottos or apparitions of the Virgin Mary, but more often in the depths of their own hearts.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“me, loving someone means carrying them, and feeding them, and holding them when they’re scared. God might be up there”—he nodded his head back, tilting up toward the ceiling—“but I’m down here.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“Water is what people need to survive,” he said. “It quenches the deepest thirst, and you don’t have to be rich to drink it. There’s nothing better than cold water….”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“To quote Martin Buber, ‘All real living is meeting.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“Girls without mothers either tried too hard or not hard enough; as they got older, they sometimes wore extra makeup, as if it could mask the fact they didn’t know what to do, how to act.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“was sleeping, but my heart kept vigil.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel