Carolyn

“There is no shame in working with your hands. In crafting or fixing. We use our minds, we use our words-if God did not want us to use our hands, too, He would not have given us such capable ones.”
― Roseanna M. White, An Hour Unspent

“Why was it so hard for Christians to come clean about the sins that had them by their throats? Because of pride? Because every Christian wanted every other Christian to think they were doing it right? That they were strong and good?

If so, that was idiotic.

His pastor liked to say that the church wasn't about helping sick people become well. It was about bringing dead people to life.

Every single one of them was dead except for Christ.”
― Becky Wade, Stay with Me

“...What was the revolution for?"
"Liberty. But people in France are tired of freedom. It's when people can vote that they realize how catastrophic and stupid are the opinions of their neighbors. Better to have a Bonaparte in charge whom you can never remove and always blame.”
― William Dietrich, The Barbed Crown

“With vivid memories of the last IRS form I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a positive outrage, wondering to myself just what had become of the fiery spirit of American taxpayers over the intervening two hundred years.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn