Shanna

“..our internal sense of identity actually ends up reflecting the many different things we've spent our life looking at, whether good or not.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“The artist's role in the world involves God's people being artistic for everyone, everywhere, and in everything inspired and directed by the law of love.”
― Charlie Peacock, Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt

“And once you know who you are in God, you can turn to the world in love. But if you don't, you'll turn to the world looking for love. So much of our identity hinges on this ordering.”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“One would have said that modest John Brooke, in his busy, quiet, humble life, had had little time to make friends; but now they seemed to start up everywhere, old and young, rich and poor, high and low; for all unconsciously his influence had made itself widely felt, his virtues were remembered, and his hidden charities rose up to bless him. The group about his coffin was a far more eloquent eulogy than any Mr. March could utter. There were the rich men whom he had served faithfully for years; the poor old women whom he cherished with his little store, in memory of his mother; the wife to whom he had given such happiness that death could not mar it utterly; the brothers and sisters in whose hearts he had made a place for ever; the little son and daughter, who already felt the loss of his strong arm and tender voice; the young children, sobbing for their kindest playmate, and the tall lads, watching with softened faces a scene which they never could forget.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men