Denise

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think,”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“So, oddly enough, not lamenting leads to unbelief. Reality wins, and hope dies.”
― David Powlison, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

“Without the queen excluder, the queen might suddenly fly off in search of a new hive, taking her swarm with her. That was what had happened in Brazil in 1957 after scientists bred Africanized honey bees, aka killer bees, thinking they would thrive in the tropical conditions. A visiting beekeeper, believing the queen excluders were hindering the movement of the bees inside the hives, removed them, and twenty-six queens as well as their swarms escaped, traveling north, eventually reaching the US.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Return