More quotes to ponder:

Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry,
For anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!
JRR Tolkien

Lots of reasons not to be hasty, apparently.

If I find in myself a desire
which no experience in this world
can satisfy,
the most probable explanation
is that I was made
for another world.
CS Lewis

Every experience God gives us
is the perfect preparation
for the future only He can see.
Corrie Ten Boom

Comparison
is the thief
of joy.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture;
the book widens and deepens
with our years.
Charles Spurgeon

That ought to be enough to chew on for now. Get those brain cells working!

This is the part where I say I will probably delete this in the morning. There – I said it.

More quotes to ponder…

When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.
When I fall,
let me fall without regret
like a leaf.
Wendell Berry

The summer has been splendid,
but it has lasted long enough.
This morning, I viewed the falling leaves
with cheerfulness.
A.A. Milne

Don’t ever imagine that anything is too small to pray about.
If it concerns you, it concerns God.
Elisabeth Elliot

O bed! O bed! O delicious bed!
That heaven on earth to weary head!
Thomas Hood

I wonder many times that a child of God
should ever have a sad heart,
considering what their Lord
is preparing for them.
Samuel Rutherford

O blog! O blog! O deleting blog! …in the morning

I’ve been going through a dry spell with my own writing, but I can still share things that others have written or said that are worth note. Take heed and be of good cheer, friends.

“All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness.” Psalm 25:1
So your path with its unexplained sorrow, and mine with its unexplained sharp flints and briers, and both with their unexpected perplexity of guidance, their sheer mystery, are just lovingkindness, nothing else.
Amy Carmichael

Glory is the weighty goodness of a thing being and doing what it was made by God to be and do.
Brian Sauve, Haunted Cosmos p. 173

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sin. That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against.
J.C. Ryle

It’s not the load that breaks you down.
It’s the way you carry it.
C.S. Lewis

And in honor of Charlie Kirk:

When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.

You can tell a lot about a man based on the enemies you earn.

I want to be remembered for the courage of my faith.

Charlie Kirk

That’s the way I’ll remember him. Rest in peace, my brother in Christ.

I’ll probably delete this in the morning…

Have you been hankering for a harvest of quotes to put in your vase? Here ya go!

If you look to the world, you’ll be distressed,
If you look within, you’ll be depressed,
If you look to God, you’ll be at rest.
Corrie Ten Boom

That’s a keeper, isn’t it?

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GK Chesterton

Think about that the next time you have a flat tire.

We need to hear the gospel every day
because we forget it every day.
Martin Luther

Amen to that!

ChatGPT creates the illusion of intelligent thought,
but there’s actually nothing going on under the hood.
Grace Snell, World Magazine August 2025

Don’t forget that.

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver

Too simple? Give it a try!

This post wasn’t astonishing enough, so it will probably get deleted in the morning.