"Books crowbar the world open for you."

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Source : Katherine Rundell (2013). “Rooftoppers”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Katherine Rundell

#Book Quotes #World Quotes

“There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.”
“Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.”
“Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics
“The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.”
“The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.”
“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.”
“I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.”
“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.”

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