Stephanie

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”
― Francis de Sales

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited