“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― The Innocence of Father Brown
― The Innocence of Father Brown
“The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
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