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“For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple--not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe: The New York Times Bestseller―A Roman Soldier's Quest for Faith After the Crucifixion

“Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Fairy Godmother

“I would sometimes see them among the trees, as I did this particular day. They did not come near and never said a word. They stood silently among the shadows.”
― Chris Priestley, Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

“When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown