"The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields."

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Source : Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

Ardyth Kennelly

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“Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.”
“Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.”
“It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.”
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
“In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.”
“I don't have a definition of God, because I've never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it's caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.”
“Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt.”

Source : Beth Moore (2014). “Portraits of Devotion”, p.207, B&H Publishing Group

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