Jenny

“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

“How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.”
― Elaine Scarry

“true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.”
― Jonathan Edwards