Jon Christenson

“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.”
― Frederick Buechner

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis