"Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd."

-- William Cowper

#Retreat Quotes #World Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.”
“Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.”
“Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.”
“Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.”
“If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.”
“So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.”
“It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?”
“In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.”

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