Abigail Taylor

“The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.”
― Amy Carmichael

“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“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

“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
― Richard Sibbes