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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the *new*.”
― Anton Ego

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Dear ignorance, I’m disowning you.
Dear knowledge, I’m wooing you.
Dear understanding, I’m seeking you.
Dear wisdom, I’m wedding you.

Dear fear, I’m divorcing you.
Dear courage, I’m courting you.
Dear hope, I’m pursuing you.
Dear love, I’m marrying you.

Dear past, I survived you.
Dear present, I’m ready for you.
Dear future, I’m longing for you.
Dear destiny, I’m coming for you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“After all this time?"
"Always...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“They that seek the Lord shall not want [lack] any good thing (Psalm 34:10). If the thing we desire is good for us, we will have it; if it is not good, then the not having is good for us.”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 [Updated and Annotated]

“The fruit of the Spirit is the imitation of Jesus Christ.”
― Andy Ripley, The Fruit of the Spirit: The Measure of Christian Maturity

“Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It is not as though rest were a separate thing from service, for the very service itself becomes rest to our souls.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Following Christ: Losing Your Life for His Sake

“What is the Lord’s estimate of these tender grapes? What does He think of that sorrow for sin, that little faith, that humble trust in His atoning sacrifice, that earnest attempt to live a changed life, that weariness of frivolity, that private prayer and study of the Scriptures, that eager desire for more grace, and that childlike love? What does the Lord think of all this? Well, first, He thinks so much of it that He calls His church to come and look at it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Following Christ: Losing Your Life for His Sake

“Anything that you take away from self and give to Christ is well invested. It will often bring in ten thousand percent.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Following Christ: Losing Your Life for His Sake

“I would like to live longer. I cannot bear to go out of the world while there is so much misery in it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Following Christ: Losing Your Life for His Sake

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. (1 Corinthians 1:26-29)”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Following Christ: Losing Your Life for His Sake

“(he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” – Acts 16:30-31)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“What are the things you seek, since you leave all the world to find them?” “I seek an incorruptible inheritance,”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able (Luke 13:24); Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it (Matt. 7:13-14).”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

“(Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. – Gal. 2:16)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.”
― Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette

“(He who made the Pleiades and Orion and changes deep darkness into morning, who also darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, The Lord is His name. – Amos 5:8)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“(But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith. – Phil. 3:7-9)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress

“(And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. – 2 Cor. 12:9)”
― John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress