Phillip Parker

“It is sometimes given to us, this lovely emptiness, and then the Holy Spirit can fill it . . . .” Madeleine L’Engle

. . . and it happens, too, when words upon the printed page fall into place, and fit the moment and the heart and, by undivided Grace, what lies within, what lies without, converges into deepest sight. In this depth and breadth and height, the outworn self evaporates. Its hidden fears and petty hatreds all abate. For across that lovely emptiness, the Voice behind all voices sings, beckons us, and flings His joyful laughter up against the gates of Paradise and, for a moment, swings them wide once more.”
― Stephanie Weller Hanson

“Books should for one of these four ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight or use.”
― John Denham

“Most places have one sky. Oklahoma city has about 12.”
― Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

“For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.”
― Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno