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  • #1
    George MacDonald
    “The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.”
    George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish

  • #2
    George MacDonald
    “Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.”
    George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III

  • #3
    George MacDonald
    “Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.”
    George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

  • #4
    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
    Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

  • #5
    Annie Dillard
    “We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home.
    There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.”
    Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

  • #6
    Annie Dillard
    “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.”
    Annie Dillard

  • #7
    Annie Dillard
    “The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
    Annie Dillard

  • #8
    Annie Dillard
    “The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?”
    Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  • #9
    Annie Dillard
    “I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
    Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  • #10
    Annie Dillard
    “Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.”
    Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  • #11
    J.K. Rowling
    “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #14
    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

  • #17
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
    G. K. Chesterton

  • #19
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #21
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #23
    Frederick Buechner
    “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
    Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

  • #24
    Frederick Buechner
    “Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.”
    Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

  • #25
    Frederick Buechner
    “To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.”
    Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words

  • #26
    Frederick Buechner
    “Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.”
    Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

  • #27
    Wendell Berry
    “Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
    Wendell Berry, Farming: A Hand Book

  • #28
    Wendell Berry
    “The Peace of Wild Things

    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
    Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

  • #29
    Wendell Berry
    “Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
    Wendell Berry

  • #30
    Marilynne Robinson
    “Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

  • #31
    Marilynne Robinson
    “I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
    Marilynne Robinson



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