I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

An Active mind didn't need distraction in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.