Melissa Petersen

“We are always completely, and therefore equally, known to God. That is our destiny whether we like it or not. But though this knowledge never varies, the quality of our being known can….Ordinarily, to be known by God is to be, for this purpose, in the category of things. We are, like earthworms, cabbages, and nebulae, objects of Divine knowledge, But when we (a) become aware of this fact--the present fact, not the generalization--and (b) assent with all our will to be known, then we treat ourselves, in relation to God, not as things but as persons. We have unveiled. Not that any veil could have baffled his sight. The change is in us. The passive changes to the active. Instead of merely being known, we show, we tell, we offer ourselves to view.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“What I did know was that for a creature of power, the choice to do good was its own kind of magic.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Mostly True Story of Jack

“But it's weakness the Maker turns to strength. Your fur is why you alone ministered to my wounds...Hear me, son. I loved you when you were born. I loved you when I wept in the depths of Throg. I loved you even as you sang the song that broke you. And I love you now in the glory of your humility. You're more fit to be king than I ever was. Do you understand?”
― Andrew Peterson

“He felt a quiet pride about the road he had traveled with this old pack - from Glipwood forest, over Miller's Bridge, past the Stranders, to Dugtown, then back along the Strand, over the Barrier, up through the Stony Mountains, over Mog Balgrik, to the Ice Prairies, then across the Dark Sea of Darkness. His anxiousness about another day at school shrank when he thought about how far the Maker had carried him. He may be scarred and worn in places, but like his pack, he believed he was the better for it.”
― Andrew Peterson