Jon Christenson

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

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

“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

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien