Kristi Hansen

“Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer of fat. What kind of times and what sort of tasks can lie ahead for a generation that must think so harshly, even at such a young age, in order to survive?”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Fiction from Tegel Prison

“Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay...comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“The tuning up of an orchestra can be itself delightful, but only to those who can in some measure, however little, anticipate the symphony.”
― C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

“For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.”
― Amy Carmichael, If