Quotes from the Commonplace Book
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero
Let be known that we have enough book-filled rooms to ensoul our whole house.
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God‘s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
Jeremiah Burroughs
And this side of heaven, reality will often feel like grief. Something is wrong. Deeply wrong.
Reality itself is a puzzle with no solution in the box.
The missing pieces to the puzzle aren’t here.
…Artwork routinely comes out of the puzzle of grief, perhaps not great grief – like the loss of a loved one – but the normal every day, grief of finding yourself living in a world that you know in your bones has gone very, very wrong.
S. D. Morgan
I will sing to the Lord,
because he has dealt bountifully with me.
King David, Psalm 13:6
God is the source of all our blessings – He is the ocean of blessings. Creatures are but the hands which distribute his charity through a needy world.
Samuel Davies
And now, for a random photo:
is like a rain without an umbrella
(You may quote me on this)
A blog without an ending is deleted in the morning.
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