Nicholas & Megan Clinch

“draw us to the hearthside of your presence. Send silence to halt our frenzied ways and quiet to lead us homeward to where your love has laid a feast. Help us to recall the grace in which we already stand, the love that need never be asked for because it is already given, the home that has already been made in our hearts by your Spirit and waits for our weary arrival.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention

“You must give up your bad habits. Some men take to drinking, and you have taken to working without pay.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“that a woman with her sleeves tucked up above her elbows might know all about the Subjunctive Mood or the Torrid Zone—that, in short, she might possess “education” and other good things ending in “tion,” and worthy to be pronounced emphatically, without being a useless doll.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“a homely place with an orchard in front of it, a rambling, old-fashioned, half-timbered building, which before the town had spread had been a farm-house, but was now surrounded with the private gardens of the townsmen. We get the fonder of our houses if they have a physiognomy of their own, as our friends have.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch