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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
    Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #7
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #10
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #11
    “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
    Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version

  • #12
    Garrison Keillor
    “You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
    Garrison Keillor, Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
    tags: age

  • #13
    Garrison Keillor
    “Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
    Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

  • #14
    “You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
    Frank Peretti

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #16
    Dee Henderson
    “I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
    Dee Henderson, The Healer

  • #18
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

  • #20
    Bill Watterson
    “The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #25
    Lisa Wingate
    “A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.”
    Lisa Wingate

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

  • #27
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #28
    Anton Chekhov
    “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #30
    Francine  Rivers
    “Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.”
    Francine Rivers

  • #31
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council



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