“Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“The universe exists primarily to display the wealth of the glory of the mercy of God for the enjoyment of his redeemed people from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.”
― Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
― Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
“Psalms, then, are not just a matchless primer of teaching but a medicine chest for the heart and the best possible guide for practical living.”
― The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
― The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
“My love for Bardia (not Bardia himself) had become to me a sickening thing. I had been dragged up and out onto such heights and precipices of truth, that I came into an air where it could not live. It stank; a gnawing greed for one to whom I could give nothing, of whom I craved all.”
― Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
― Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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