Top 180 Debbie Macomber Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.”

— Debbie Macomber

2. “If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”

— Debbie Macomber

3. “If you don’t take care of yourself, no one else will.”

— Debbie Macomber

4. “I love the way knitting brings people together.”

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5. “Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.”

— Debbie Macomber

6. “Maybe money can’t buy love – but it can get you practically everything else.”

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7. “Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.”

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8. “There’s more to life than work and more work.”

— Debbie Macomber

9. “The best way to get even is to forget.”

— Debbie Macomber

10. “It’s not polite to invite yourself along.”

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11. “But although she was with family and friends, she’d never felt more alone. She felt as if she’d lost a vital part of herself and she had – her heart.”

— Debbie Macomber

12. “Don’t make assumptions. Ask and let me explain. Don’t decide what you think I feel.”

— Debbie Macomber

13. “I’m a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There’s something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.”

— Debbie Macomber

14. “A successful marriage isn’t finding the right person, it’s being the right person.”

— Debbie Macomber

15. “I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.”

— Debbie Macomber

16. “Being kind is like looking at your own reflection in the calm waters of a lake. Then the act of kindness ripples those waters, like a stone tossed upon the surface.”

— Debbie Macomber

17. “We’re each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.”

— Debbie Macomber

18. “I’ve heard there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who wake up and say ‘Good Morning, God’ and those who say ‘Good God, Morning.”

— Debbie Macomber

19. “Here’s where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.”

— Debbie Macomber

20. “Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.”

— Debbie Macomber

21. “Love that isn’t faithful has little value. It really isn’t love at all.”

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22. “Think about it. Everything of value in life involves risk.”

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23. “People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. – Mrs. Miracle.”

— Debbie Macomber

24. “The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations.” – Karen Alfke, “Unpattern” designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN.”

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25. “It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle.”

— Debbie Macomber

26. “God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle.”

— Debbie Macomber

27. “Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don’t see the gain, don’t recognize the gift.”

— Debbie Macomber

28. “Good friends, good meat. Good God, let’s eat!”

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29. “You’re a lovely woman... and a beautiful person besides. You deserve happiness. Isn’t that what the Twenty Wishes are all about? Goin after the things you want in life. Places to see, people to meet, experiences to live. Don’t hold back now. Go for it!”

— Debbie Macomber

30. “While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.”

— Debbie Macomber

31. “Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle.”

— Debbie Macomber

32. “Don’t cling to the past. Look instead to the future. You have a husband who adores you and children waiting to be born. Your life is just beginning. So much love awaits you, more joy than you can possibly imagine now. Your pain shall reap an abundant harvest of life’s treasures. Trust me in this.”

— Debbie Macomber

33. “We get so busy that it’s easy to let some things slide. We can either pick them up again, or let them stay lost... I never thought about knitting like that, though.”

— Debbie Macomber

34. “Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.”

— Debbie Macomber

35. “Furious, she grabbed his tie and jerked him into the apartment. “You can come inside,” she said.”

— Debbie Macomber

36. “We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book – my book, any book, any romance. It’s entertainment, it’s escape, and it can even be an inspiration!”

— Debbie Macomber

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37. “Merry Christmas. His would be without the Merry for sure.”

— Debbie Macomber

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38. “I love to knit. There’s a comfort to it that I can’t entirely explain. The repetition of weaving the yarn around the needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order and I found it in knitting.”

— Debbie Macomber

39. “Unfortunately he’d fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.”

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40. “We all make mistakes. Big and small. But you don’t have to let them define you forever.”

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41. “You know if it’d been three wise women searching for the newborn babe, they would have asked for directions much sooner, found the stable, swept it out, and had a meal waiting by the time Mary and Joseph arrived.”

— Debbie Macomber

42. “Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”

— Debbie Macomber

43. “Once she had her mind set on something she became an unstoppable force, forging ahead.”

— Debbie Macomber

44. “My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – it’s what my children call my ‘dead author wall.’ I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”

— Debbie Macomber

45. “I wanted time for my heart to heal and for my head to wrap itself around these major life changes.”

— Debbie Macomber

46. “Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.”

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47. “Sometimes, I think we’re afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.”

— Debbie Macomber

48. “We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.”

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49. “If kindness can alter two people’s attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time.”

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50. “She said interruptions were simply God’s appointments.”

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