Amanda

“Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy”
― Khalil Gibran

“I want the flowers but not the work. Isn’t that the way it is with many things in life—we want the results but have no desire to put in the work required?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Never make decisions out of fear or being scared, boy. Fear is the devil’s tool. He wants us to be scared. God hasn’t given us a spirit of fear. He gives us a spirit of power and love and the ability to make sound decisions. Don’t listen to the voice of fear. Trust God even when fear grips you, then claim the power He’s given you, son.”
― Kimberly Rae Jordan, A Home for Christmas