Maddie

“Study hard, little one. For if you can read, you can slip into the pages of a book and escape into your mind.”
― Jill Marie Landis, Heart of Stone

“I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth—so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” The”
― Matt Chandler, The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption