Lauri

“As I read more in this one little book, I understood for the first time ever that I’m a sinner. I can’t do anything good on my own—which I pretty much knew. What I didn’t know was there was someone who came to save me. Someone perfect who could take on the punishment I deserved. Perfection’s not in my skill set, but God sent his son Jesus to be that for me. He let himself be put up on that cross—like the one out by the pond—and his father turned his back on him because he took my sin … he took your sin … he took it all on him, so we don’t have to. “Like we’ve all heard Ben say, ‘We can’t ever do more bad than God’s willing and able to forgive.’ More than that, we don’t ever have to be separated from God. I’ve”
― Joy E. Rancatore, Any Good Thing

“Nothin’ can be done about the past. It was. But it doesn’t have to be our present or future. We get to move on. We get to make wiser choices based on what that past taught us. We get to serve and bless others using that past.”
― Joy E. Rancatore, Any Good Thing

“no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey