A friend gave me this charming blank book (thank you, Teresa!) over a year ago and I spent some time contemplating just how I wanted to use it. Prayer request journal? A place to enter books that I’m reading? A place to record ideas for my blog posts?
A couple months ago it came to me: this would be the perfect commonplace book! If you’ve never heard that term, a commonplace book is simply a book in which you record quotes that you come across that you want to save.
And lo, it came to pass. I’ve filled several pages with quotes and plan to continue doing it – from books I’m reading, things I run across online, or something I hear on a podcast. I’m loving it!
Therefore, on Tuesdays this year for a while, I’m going to share some of my commonplace quotes (along with occasional true stories from my life). Feel free to share in the comments section any quotes you’ve enjoyed and appreciated. I might add them to my book!
Send a heavy heart up to Christ;
it shall be welcome.
Samuel Rutherford
The taking up of the cross is the continual daily practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
Elisabeth Elliot
Tradition is not the worship of ashes,
but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler
When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me. …
You will cast all our sins into the depth of the sea.
Micah 7:7b and 19b
You can’t solve problems for those people who
don’t want their problem solved.
Anonymous – found in my mother’s music cabinet November 2024
That’s all for now – and you can quote me on that! Unless I delete this in the morning.
Lynniebeemuseoday 
My daughters kept what they called their “quote books” during high school. They were wonderful! Everything from Scripture to Shakespear! Then one of them decided to get rid of them! The other daughter and I thought that was horrible and sought out to divert them from the garbage and tuck them away until later, when that person was full of regrets, and we could return them! I’m not sure if we actually followed through on our desire or not. I think your common place book is a grand idea! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Here is a “rough” quote from a greeting card I gave away some time ago. For obvious reasons, it has reappeared in my memory: “How {precious} those who so fresh from God, love us.”
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I love that quote! And I really want to know if you were able to save your daughter’s quote book!
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