Reuben

“I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“as I had only once to die, I was content to leave the time and place and means in the hand of God”
― John G. Paton, The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals

“A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.”
― Italo Calvino

“Godly fear,” wrote John Bunyan, flows from a sense of the love and kindness of God to the soul. Where there is no sense of hope of the kindness and mercy of God by Jesus Christ, there can be none of this fear, but rather wrath and despair, which produces a fear that is … devilish; … but godly fear flows from a sense of hope of mercy from God by Jesus Christ.2”
― Jerry Bridges, The Joy of Fearing God