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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #4
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #5
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #6
    Robert Frost
    “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
    Robert Frost

  • #7
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #8
    Ian Fleming
    “You only live twice:
    Once when you are born
    And once when you look death in the face”
    Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

  • #9
    William Blake
    “Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
    William Blake

  • #10
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #11
    Joni Eareckson Tada
    “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
    Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

  • #12
    Joni Eareckson Tada
    “Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”
    Joni Eareckson Tada

  • #13
    Joni Eareckson Tada
    “...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.”
    Joni Eareckson Tada

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
    Voltaire

  • #16
    “My soul doth magnify the Lord,
    And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.”
    Anonymous

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)”
    C. S. Lewis

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #19
    C.S. Lewis
    “God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.”
    C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #22
    Marlene Dietrich
    “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
    Marlene Dietrich

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #24
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    “Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
    Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

  • #25
    Aristotle
    “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
    Aristotle

  • #26
    George Herbert
    “The best mirror is an old friend.”
    George Herbert

  • #27
    E.B. White
    “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #28
    “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
    Charles Caleb Colton

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury



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