quotes from Jan Karon - Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel
Kindle edition, as of 11/25/2019
It’s what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde
Bonhoeffer said: “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges
Charles Dickens said, It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper—so cry away.
Victor Hugo. ‘“Sleep in peace, God is awake.”’
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened [Ernest Hemingway]
what Julian of Norwich said as she suffered a devastating illness of her own: “All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
‘“All that I have seen,” Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, “teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”’
‘Deep in their roots,’ Roethke had said, ‘all flowers keep the light.’
‘Mazel tov!’ Abe would say. ‘May you live to finance the education of your grandchildren!’
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