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" It goes without saying; human beings do horrible things to one another. And the point is not that these are small offenses. Some of them are huge. However, they are small in comparison to what we have done to offend God."

"And I think that was the moment I began to suspect that the luck Hawkes spoke of might really only be an awareness, an awareness of grace."

" In every moment as you are parenting your children, the heavenly Father is parenting you... As you seek to encourage your children toward what is right, your Father in heaven is working to grow the desire for right in you. In all those moments when you intervene to protect your children from their own foolish choices, the great Father is protecting you from you."

"If she has discovered the secret of bringing her sense of good fortune into all hardship, great and small, you will find yourself in a very tight spot indeed. And if these instincts harden into a conscious recognition between two responses -gratitude or bitterness- you will have lost an access point that, in some ways, represents the whole battle. Indeed, I could go so far as to say that you will have lost the soul"

"Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead...we want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, not kind, nor happy now, but always using a mere fuel wherewithin to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present."

Dang, how Tilly packs a punch.

"Your girl is one of those who are weak as puppies when it comes to physical or emotional pleasures of the quickest kind. The screen, the flattering glance, the bag of candy are all access points... Let her keep imagining herself a star-crossed lover instead of a sordid, pathetic, gluttonous Goldilocks, scarfing guiltily away in another person's bowl, chair, and bed."

Having a really hard time getting through this book... tempted to DNF but I had really high hopes for this winter read and it's been on my shelf forever. So loyalist that I am, I'm going to stick it out.