berty.bell

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“Stories shape our existence because we recognize in a deep part of ourselves that life itself is a story. The tale of the world opens with a sort of divine "once upon a time" or "in the beginning... The gospel itself comes to us in narrative form and one of its great tenets is that we have the chance to join the story of the Kingdom come in this world, to be agents in the ongoing story of redemption, what Rowan William call the "freedom of a sort of authorship.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

“Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo