Abigail Taylor

“His work has been his necessity and his desire.”
― Wendell Berry

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.”
― Oliver Herford

“To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“The things we try to avoid and fight against—tribulation, suffering, and persecution—are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. “We are more than conquerors through Him” “in all these things”; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn’t know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. Paul said, “I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:4).”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest