“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
― The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
― The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
“Suffering is one of God’s ordained means for the growth of his church. He brought salvation to the world through Christ, our suffering Savior, and he now spreads salvation in the world through Christians as suffering saints. In the words of Paul, “All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim. 3:12). Clearly, there is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.”
― The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
― The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected
“This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
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“Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“She knew that hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.”
― The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
― The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
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