Katja Labonté’s Reviews > Jane Eyre > Status Update

How I do love this book.

The school always breaks my heart. How cruel, how wrong, how pointless.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

“The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.”

Resurgam.
I shall rise again.

“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness—to glory?”

Man, I needed Helen just now.

“Is he a good man?”
“He is a clergyman, and is said to do a great deal of good.”

Ah, what a difference between the two!