“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice".
Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".”
― Anne of Green Gables
Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".”
― Anne of Green Gables
“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”
― The Hiding Place
― The Hiding Place
“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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