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“It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes.”
― Leo Rosten, The Education of Hyman Kaplan

“Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.”
― Andrew Peterson

“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of the stained glass. We can hardly make anything beautiful that wasn’t beautiful in the first place. We aren’t writers, but gleeful rearrangers of words whose meanings we can’t begin to know. When we manage to make something pretty, it’s only so because we are ourselves a flourish on a greater canvas. That means there’s no end to the discovery. We may crawl around the cathedral floor for ages before we grow up enough to reach the doorknob and walk outside into a garden of delights. Beyond that, the city, then the rolling hills, then the sea. And when the world of every cell has been limned and painted and sung, we lie back on the grass, satisfied that our work is done. Then, of course, the sun sets and we see above us the dark dome of glittering stars.

On and on it goes, all the way to the lightless borderlands of time and space, which we come to discover in some future age are but the beginnings or endings of a single word spoken from the mouth of God. Some nights, while I traipse down the hill, I imagine that word isn’t a word at all, but a burst of laughter.”
― Andrew Peterson

“The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.”
― Andrew Peterson

“One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water

“Reading for writers is like training for athletes.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water

“If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through . . .”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“Salva shouldered his way through the crowd until he was standing in front of the list. He raised his head slowly and began reading through the names. There it was. Salva Dut—Rochester, New York. Salva was going to New York. He was going to America!”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“The bag sprang a leak. The leak had to be patched. The patch sprang a leak. The crew patched the patch. Then the bag sprang another leak. The drilling could not go on.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“They patched the bag again. The drilling went on.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
― George Washington

“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?"
He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor.
Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said.
I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.
It's too heavy," I said.
Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom