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    Brother Lawrence
    “We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”
    ― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
    tags: action, devotion, love
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    Jerry Bridges
    “Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.”
    ― Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness
    tags: bad-days, christ, good-days, grace
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    Jerry Bridges
    “Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.”
    ― Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts
    tags: trust, trusting-god
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    Jerry Bridges
    “Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.”
    ― Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts
    tags: boredom, calling, job, vocation
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  • #5
    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
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert, November
    tags: forests, harmony, language, listening, nature, waves, words
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: waves
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    Emmuska Orczy
    “When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
    ― Baroness Orczy
    tags: sad, waves
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    A.A. Milne
    “Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”
    ― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: anticipation, honey
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: imagtination, on-writing-frankenstein, writing-craft
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    John Wesley
    “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
    ― John Wesley, Letters of John Wesley
    tags: books, knowledge, love, reading
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    Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
    “I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. How much greater? About the size of a mustard seed. Repentance requires that we draw near to Jesus, no matter what. And sometimes we all have to crawl there on our hands and knees. Repentance is an intimate affair. And for many of us, intimacy with anything is a terrifying prospect.”
    ― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
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    John Cheever
    “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
    ― John Cheever
    tags: books, fiction, inspirational, on-fiction, writing
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    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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    John Owen
    “The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.”
    ― John Owen, Communion with God
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    Zeno of Citium
    “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
    ― Zeno of Citium, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
    tags: listening, listening-skills
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  • #18
    “The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.”
    ― Alfred Brendel
    tags: inspirational, listen, listening, silent, talking
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: renewal, summer
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    Julian of Norwich
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
    tags: hope-springs-eternal
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    Julian of Norwich
    “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
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    Julian of Norwich
    “He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.”
    ― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
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    Julian of Norwich
    “God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”
    ― Julian of Norwich
    tags: love, spirituality
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  • #25
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    J.I. Packer
    “Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”
    ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
    tags: faith, strength
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    J.I. Packer
    “The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.”
    ― J.I. Packer
    tags: christain, extrovert, god, introvert
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    J.I. Packer
    “Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. ”
    ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
    tags: prayer
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    J.I. Packer
    “Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.”
    ― J.I. Packer
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    J.I. Packer
    “God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.”
    ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
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