Eleanor Jo Harwell > Recent Status Updates

“I drew away from the window, and sat down in my one chair by the bedside, feeling it very powerful and strange that this first night of my fortune should be the loneliest I had ever known”

“‘Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over?’ Biddy quietly asked me, after a pause.
‘I don’t know,’ I moodily answered.
‘Because, if it is to spite her, I should think- but you know best- that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think- but you know best- she was not worth gaining over” (129)

“A man who takes long walks by the river and reads books always has something to think about”

“But regardless of the season, this towering tree, as others had done in other places, served as Theo’s quiet companion and mentor in the ancient ways of stillness and listening”

“But regardless of the season, this towering tree, as others had done in other places, served as Theo’s quiet companion and mentor in the ancient ways of stillness and listening”

“We are all aware that the Spirit teaches the mind of God, and glorifies the Son of God, out of the Scriptures; also, he is the agent of the new birth, giving us an understanding so that we know God and a new heart to obey him; also, that he indwells, sanctifies, and energizes Christians for their daily pilgrimage; also, the assurance, joy, peace, and power are his special gifts.”
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I’ve already cried. So excited for this

“The thought of our Maker becoming our perfect parent – faithful in love and care, generous and thoughtful, interested in all we do, respecting our individuality, skilled in training us, wise in guidance, always available, helping us to find ourselves in maturity, integrity, and uprightness – is a thought which can have meaning for everybody.” (203)

Beth Moore just had me crying in my hometown Starbucks trying to be all chill about it

“‘Good words,’ I replied. ‘But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.”’
Ellen 😳😳😳 get her

This book is crazy

The quote “whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” was a lot more endearing before I knew the context 🫠🫠
Excellent book to be reading in this weather bc it’s dark and I didn’t know

“Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to his will, more resolute in the doing of it and less troubled, (not less sensitive, but less bewildered) than we were at the dark and painful things of which our life in this fallen world is full. The New Testament tells us that the fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness” (108)
I’m fired up

“Seek grace to work hard at whatever ever life calls you to do, and enjoy your work as you do it. Leave to God its issues; let him measure its ultimate worth; your part is to use all the good sense in enterprise at your command and exploiting the opportunities that lie before you (…)we can be sure that God knows what he is doing, and “doeth all things well”, even if for the moment he hides his hand” (107)

“The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor – spending and being spent – to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care, and concern, to do good to others – and not just their own friends – in whatever way there seems need” (63)

“All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me”

“There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic”

“There is great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose”

Started this on plane and I’m already angry (which began in book 6) about how poorly the movies wrote Ginny. She’s one of the best

IM IN IT

I’ve arrived 😭

“He is getting us into the shape of the goal He has for us, and yet over and over again we try to escape from the Sculptor’s hand in an effort to batter ourselves into the shape of our own goal”

THIS BOOK IS CRAZY
TJR is such a good author why did I forget

Needed a break from order of the Phoenix so emily Henry is saving the day

This book is so long. I feel like I’ve been reading it forever and he is just starting occlumency. 🙄. Also I just don’t love the cho plot. Also I’m already anticipating the heart break I’ll experience before the book is over and I’m not ready for it I’m really not

I love this book but it is INSUFFERABLE

We were ROBBED of not having Charlie in the movies. Ugh red flag if you think movies are better than books I’ll never shut up about it

THEY JUST LEFT THE SHACK AND I HAVE TO GO GO CLASS THIS IS HORRIBLE TIMING

Reading this like 😏😏 the whole time bc this whole book is a PRANK and they don’t even know how many plot twists are coming.

I love these kids so much they are just pals and best friends

“Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedient to your will can be transformed”

Actually giddy to be starting this one again- and the illustrated version this time 🥹🥲