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“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr.

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“What d'you want to go and find a dragon for, at this time of year, and me with my hands full?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We read to know we are not alone.”
― C.S. Lewis

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

“All children, except one, grow up.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C. S. Lewis

“A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

“Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Thirty seconds can be very long sometimes. Long enough to work a miracle or a revolution.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“But now she loved winter. Winter was beautiful "up back" - almost intolerably beautiful. Days of clear brilliance. Evenings that were like cups of glamour - the purest vintage of winter's wine. Nights with their fire of stars. Cold, exquisite winter sunrises. Lovely ferns of ice all over the windows of the Blue Castle. Moonlight on birches in a silver thaw. Ragged shadows on windy evenings - torn, twisted, fantastic shadows. Great silences, austere and searching. Jewelled, barbaric hills. The sun suddenly breaking through grey clouds over long, white Mistawis. Ice-grey twilights, broken by snow-squalls, when their cosy living-room, with its goblins of firelight and inscrutable cats, seemed cosier than ever. Every hour brought a new revalation and wonder.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“When he said good evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle