Crisanne Werner

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“We can’t pat ourselves on the back for maintaining a unified church if all we’re looking at are the people who show up on a Sunday morning. We need to ask who is absent, not necessarily by literal barrier but by social and economic divisions we have failed to properly dismantle in our own community.”
― Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma