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~ In lives where there had been no change for so long there had suddenly been cataclysmic change, as startling as this change from cold grey rain to brilliant sunshine.

~ It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty.

~ Beauty awakened such intolerable longing that people often shut their eyes to it, unaware that the longing was the greatest treasure that they had, their very lifeline, uniting the country of their lost innocence with the heavenly country for which their sails were set.

~ With what bounty and withal with what humor did heaven answer prayer.

~ I don’t believe in economizing on food. You only end in a nursing home, which costs more a week than decent food.

Me: Miss Wentworth, amen

Gloire de Dijon roses are the ones mom likes

Oh my…Michael is the fiancé who left Daphne?? The scandal!

~ The way God squandered Himself had always hurt her; and annoyed her too. The sky full of wings and only the shepherds awake. That golden voice speaking and only a few fishermen there to hear; and perhaps some of the words He spoke carried away on the wind or lost in the sound of the waves lapping against the side of the boat.

~ He was aware of inconsistency in loving souls and hating visitors, but the fact was that try as he might he found it hard to realize that the well-clothed body of a visitor was inhabited by an immortal soul.

~ It is the difference between beasts and men that the first desert each other in pain and the second go in to each other and bear each other company.