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“Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4”
― Wanda E. Brunstetter, A Cousin's Promise

“John 11:43–44: “And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice,Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
― Wanda E. Brunstetter, A Cousin's Promise

“against the kitchen counter. “Oh, Sister,” I said, “you have no idea.”
― Rebecca St. James, The Merciful Scar

“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Entice

“I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds Feet on High Places

“Careless words stab like a sword,  but the words of the wise bring healing.    Proverbs 12:18 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rescue of those who are crushed. Proverbs 31:8”
― Wendy Duke, Grace in the Middle

“God is not a pill. His Word is not a nicotine patch or a medicated Band-aid we can just press onto a wound to make it all better. The words on the page don’t cure our cancer: only the Writer can. He’s not easy or fast or consolidated, but way more complex and majestic and enormous than what can be contained in the limited language of man. He is a feast, laid bare on the table, inviting us to partake, to savor, to chew until our jaws are tired. He’s meant to be digested and absorbed into every cell of our being. The Bible has been, from the beginning, a conversation between the Creator and His creation—a heart-to-heart between a Father and His child.”
― Wendy Duke, Grace in the Middle

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” Oscar Wilde”
― Jessica Shirvington, Emblaze

“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.” John Owen”
― Jessica Shirvington, Emblaze

“Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” Robert Louis Stevenson”
― Jessica Shirvington, Endless

“No man chooses evil because it is evil…he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley”
― Jessica Shirvington, Endless

“And your Allah is One Allah: There is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.”
― Anonymous, Holy Quaran Arabic-English

“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“But now I have something that blows that feeling out of the water. Every time I need a hit of joy, I think about you. You are my solace, Kate. Just knowing that you are in this world, everything makes sense.”
― Amy Plum, Until I Die

“When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of your shame, it is conscience. When you look in the mirror and cringe as a result of how people think of you, it is ego. Which of the two is more prevalent in your life?”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“Hamlet is not offering you hypocritical advice against revenge; it is reminding you that the choice really is yours to make! No matter what kind of social prison we are placed in, we are all empowered to make choices that are rooted in what we want, and not what others expect of us.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one’s past, from one’s youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.”
― Hannah Nordhaus, American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier

“If they were expected,” she shot back, “then they wouldn’t be breakthroughs, now would they?”
― Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector

“People love a spectacle, an event. Give them something to watch and you will make them happy. “So much of life is in the smallness of moments,” my mother said. “But they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.”
― Ally Condie, Atlantia

“I don’t want to know how you did it. I want to believe that you’re magic.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

“your metal leg and half a brain, and my four leftover senses, we almost make a whole person.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.”
― Dean Koontz, Darkfall

“some believe lily of the valley brings a return of happiness.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

“Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world? The vilest thing I had located, within myself and within the system that held me prisoner, was an indifference to the suffering of others.”
― Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

“The novels of our lives are written only partly by ourselves; other forces regularly grab the pen, interpolating strange deviations and digressions, enforced changes of pace, character or plot.”
― Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark

“Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.”
― Anna Lyndsey

“Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea.”
― Michelle Knight, Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

“but he did know that the bad things were caused by other people, not by God Himself. Evil lived in the hearts of men.”
― Rosalind Noonan, And Then She Was Gone