Sarah Ronquillo

“I've got something besides the weather to think of. I don't know whether the sun shines or not."
Pollyanna beamed joyously.
"No, sir; I thought you didn't. That's why I told you.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

“In his imagination he was far away in a little Western town with a missionary minister who was poor, sick, worried, and almost alone in the world - but who was poring over the Bible to find how many times his Lord and Master had told him to "rejoice and be glad.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

“She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand what she DID want seemed impossible-until she knew what she had.”
― Eleanor H. Porter

“But Jesus could see inside people. And inside, in their hearts, Jesus saw that they did not love God or other people. They were running away from God, and they thought they didn't need a rescuer. They thought they were good enough because they kept the rules. But sin had stopped their hearts from working properly. And their hearts were hard and cold.
"This woman knows she's a sinner," Jesus told them. "She knows she'll never be good enough. She knows she needs me to rescue her. That's why she loves me so much. You look down on this woman because you don't look up to God. She is sinful on the outside-but you are sinful on the inside.”
― Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name