Sarah Mitchell

“Literature helps to humanize us. It expands our range of experiences. It fosters awareness of ourselves and the world. It enlarges our compassion for people. It awakens our imaginations. It expresses our feelings and insights about God, nature, and life. It enlivens our sense of beauty. And it is a constructive form of entertainment.”
― Tony Reinke, Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

“The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap”
― Amy Carmichael, A Very Present Help: Life Messages of Great Christans

“While all valid feelings are real, not all real feelings are valid. That means we can acknowledge our emotions without affirming them.”
― Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

“A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.”
― Amy Carmichael, Candles in the Dark