“God knows all things at all times. By His very nature, his omniscience enables Him to know what has happened, is happening, and will happen. Though we might not be able to see His reasons, or to agree with them from our perspectives, they
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“we keep the people we love in our hearts. We never lose them as long as we can remember how it felt to be loved by them.”
― What the Wind Knows
― What the Wind Knows
“Grief and joy are complicated. Love and loss too, and I know tears aren’t always what they seem.”
― Where the Lost Wander
― Where the Lost Wander
“in weeping there was power. The power to heal, the power to release pain and let go, the power to endure love and to shoulder loss.”
― A Different Blue
― A Different Blue
“politics was the new religion; Adolf Hitler, the new messiah.”
― Tears of Amber
― Tears of Amber
“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
"Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden
"Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden
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