Thea

“Redemption means bringing us back to that which God originally intended, but because of the bounty of His nature, He goes beyond mere restoration to Eden. Once lower than the angels, we are made joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Conversion has us rejoicing in the fact that we are enabled to become who we originally were made to be, rather than becoming someone entirely different. The renewal takes place when we are resurrected in conversion; and sanctification causes a radical change, not in the gift we have, but in its purpose and use.”
― Ralph T. Mattson and Arthur F. Miller, Jr.

“That's when Ibrahim joined us and suggested that DCI might try plates, and Donna said that was something she would pay to see. Ian Venham didn't want to join in the fun, and told Donna and DCI Hudson that he paid their wages. Donna said in that case could she ask him about a pay rise, and that's when Ventham started shouting the odds about this, that, and the other. People without a sense of humor will never forgive you for being funny. But that's an aside.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

“...facing the knowledge of how we are motivated and praying and opening ourselves to the ministry of others is a balanced approach for finding God's will.”
― Ralph T. Mattson and Arthur F. Miller, Jr.

“Mma Ramotswe read the remainder of the letter, which as far as she could make out was meaningless jargon which the attorney had been taught at law school. They were impossible, these people; they had a few years of lectures at the University of Botswanna and they set themselves up as expertes on everything. What did they know of life? All they knew was how to parrot stock phrases of their profession and to continue to be obstinate until somebody, somewhere, paid up. They won by attrition in most cases, but they themselves concluded it was skill. Few of them would survive in her profession, which required tact and perspicacity.”
― Alexander McCall Smith