"The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter."

-- James Rowland Angell

#Gratitude Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Bread Quotes

“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”
“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”
“Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.”
“Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.”
“Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.”
“I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'”
“Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.”
“Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.”

Source : Herman Bavinck (2008). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation”, p.243, Baker Books

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