Abigail Taylor

“Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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

“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

“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