Kate

“She explained that while the card room was rarely used, at three o’clock on Wednesdays four women met there without fail for a regular game of whist; and if you arrived by two thirty and hid in the cupboard, you could hear their every word—which included a good deal of cursing; and when the ladies left, you could eat the rest of their cookies.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“we need processes that allow differences to be expressed, heard, and left to mature in such a way that we can walk together without needing to destroy anyone.”
― Pope Francis, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

“Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“And he believed, most especially, in the reshaping of destinies by the slightest change in the thermometer. By way of example, one need only look down from this window. Not three weeks before—with the temperature hovering around 45° Fahrenheit—Theatre Square had been empty and gray. But with an increase in the average temperature of just five degrees, the trees had begun to blossom, the sparrows had begun to sing, and couples young and old were lingering on the benches. If such a slight change in temperature was all it took to transform the life of a public square, why should we think the course of human history any less susceptible?”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow