“I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.”
― Gift from the Sea
― Gift from the Sea
“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.”
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“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
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― Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets
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― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows
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