Jim

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas