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“Do not despair if the answer is slow in coming. Bethlehem proves the faithfulness of God. He answers our fears with a baby wrapped in rags. They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. This is the promise of God.”
― Ray Pritchard, Simple Christmas: Daily Advent Devotional

“Brothers in God,” he said simply, “you are not entering upon a limited mission. You are to aim at nothing less than the complete regeneration and salvation of a society. If children now die, they are to be saved. If minds are now ignorant, they are to be enlightened. If idols flourish, they are to be supplanted by the word of Jesus. And if a road is mired and useless, it is to be paved and made straight. If there is among you any man or woman with a hundred capacities, he will find in Owhyhee full outlet for all of them. Spend yourselves in Christ so that in later years it may be said of you, ‘They came to a nation in darkness; they left it in light.’ ”
― James A. Michener, Hawaii

“but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.”
― James A. Michener, Hawaii

“Everything there is contrived. All is an affect. The way your neighbors dress, the way they gossip, the ostentatiousness of the affair, the one-up-manship. Strikes me as exhausting.”
― Alan Lee, Flawed Players

“As hospitality demanded the invitation, courtesy demanded acceptance,”
― Patricia Potter, The Scottish Highland Series: Beloved Impostor, Beloved Stranger, and Beloved Warrior

“I’ve always loved storms. Sometimes it helps to have a reminder that nature is the one with the real power and we’re merely going with the flow. I suppose in a way that’s what people get from religion. The comfort of thinking that someone else is in”
― Andrea Carter, Death at Whitewater Church

“Maybe it was a generational thing, this stoic acceptance. Our generation has given that up; we rail against bad fortune, refuse to accept it if things don’t go our way. And it never makes one damn bit of difference, since so much is out of our control.”
― Andrea Carter, Death at Whitewater Church

“suddenly enlightenment, blinding and dazing as the light which smote Saul on the road to Damascus, burst upon her. Negation and disbelief would never cure the sickness of this world. You could never defeat evil by retreating from it. It must be faced and fought and overcome. Action, not futile sorrow, was what was needed.”
― Norah Lofts, Michael And All Angels

“I’ve found that each day presents its gifts if I expect nothing and refrain from worry about tomorrow.”
― John I. Rigoli, The Mystery of Julia Episcopa