Laura Miller

“I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us -- the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.”
― Edward T. Welch, Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

“We have been shaped to perform for likes, but we do not know how to be loved.”
― John Starke, The Secret Place of Thunder: Trading Our Need to Be Noticed for a Hidden Life with Christ

“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing