Dawn Shaver

“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state of the other.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead