P 70 Quotes

“We were created by Love, in love, and for love.”
― Tim Tebow, Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms

“When the rain pours down especially, we have long hours of captivity, in which my sisters determinedly grow bored. But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them. Everyone else will finish with the singular plowing through, and Ada still has discoveries ahead and behind. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Moral psychology has a metaphysical foundation; self-interest implies community, and community, universality. Egoism has as its contrast altruism; but that contrast is otiose if the good of the self is the good of the others.”
― Reginald E. Allen , The Symposium

“To be intelligently experimental is but to be conscious of [the] intersection of natural conditions so as to profit by it instead of being at its mercy. The Christian idea of this world and this life as a probation is a kind of distorted recognition of the situation; distorted because it applied wholesale to one stretch of existence in contrast with another, regarded as original and final”
― John Dewey, Experience and Nature

“As the week had gone on, I’d got to know my way round the back lanes and cut-throughs. I had the sense Queenie was getting used to us too. Begrudgingly – and rather badly - she’d even started to cook for us. Yet apart from mealtimes, I didn’t see that much of her. She’d either be in the shop or down in the cellar. When I tried asking about my sister, she’d stare at me blankly as if she’d forgotten who Sukie was. Other times, she’d cut across me with some delivery detail or job that needed doing.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse

“France is not England, and nowhere do they differ more than in their attitude towards intellectuals, toward women, and toward those who happen to be both.”
― Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA