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.

The first glimpses of fall weather have come: a slight chill in the air, the buzz saw sounds of the cicadas, a few green leaves giving way to red, flowers starting to say farewell… The glory of summer must now defer to the glory of autumn.

On that note, here are a few quotes for you to read and savor:

Faith may dance because Christ sings;
and we may come in the choir
and lift our hoarse and rough voices,
and chirp and sing,
and shout for joy with our Lord Jesus.
Samuel Rutherford

Often, the sweeter the first fruit of a habit,
the more bitter are its later fruits.
Frederic Bastiat, French Economist

How many things have I that others lack?
Can I bring my heart into a quiet, contented frame
to lack what others have?
Jeremiah Burroughs

The way God creates unity
is by making everyone different.
Daniel Ralph

The lesson for fathers (and mothers):
Be the smile of God to your children.
Joe Rigney

Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth
when I should shut it.
Elisabeth Elliot

Enjoy these beautiful days, friends.

I’ll probably say farewell to this post in the morning.

Quotes for pondering:

Oh, the temptations that men of discontented spirits are subject to! The Devil loves to fish in troubled waters.
Jeremiah Burroughs

The optimist sees the opportunity in every danger;
the pessimist sees the danger in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill

If a man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him;
for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
Charles Spurgeon

To forgive is to set a prisoner free
and to discover the prisoner was you.
Corrie Ten Boom

You don’t have to give up your intellect to trust the Bible.
You have to give up your pride.
R.C. Sproul

“Books are people,” smiled Miss Marks, “In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.”
D.E. Stevenson, The Four Graces page 10

Read that last quote and then consider how the Bible fits the description…

I’ll be throwing this post into troubled waters in the morning.

Some quotes to feed you this week:

I write to discover what I know.
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O’Connor

This is so true about my writing as well. Good old FOC!

To study and not think is a waste.
To think and not study is dangerous.
Confucius

If Truth is on the battlefield,
let her and Falsehood grapple;
Who ever knew Truth put to worse
in a free and open encounter.
John Milton

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those that wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
JRR Tolkien

For to know a man’s library is,
in some measure,
to know his mind.
Geraldine Brooks

Not all blog posts that glitter are gold and some must wither in the morning.

Half the world is composed of people
who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book
and only reading it once.
C.S. Lewis

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
Violet Grantham, Downton Abbey

Confidence is silent.
Insecurities are LOUD.
Unknown

The world does not read the Bible,
The world reads Christians.
Charles Spurgeon

If we trust, we do not worry.
If we worry, we do not trust.
Amy Carmichael

Rats, I picked out a bunch of nifty fonts for those quotes, but apparently WordPress does not support them. You’ll just have to imagine them.

Feel free to share quotes you enjoy in the comments.

I’ll probably realize I have nothing to say and keep on saying it in the morning.

To see the Law by Christ fulfill’d
And hear his pard’ning voice;
changes a slave into a child,
and duty into choice.
William Cowper (1731-1800)

The world is a window through which we espy heav’n.
To look at the world and see only the world
is like looking at a window
instead of looking through the window
to see what’s beyond it.
Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth

I believe in God like I believe in the sun,
not only because I see him,
but because by him
I see everything else.
C.S. Lewis

Hold us in quiet through the age-long minutes
while Thou art quiet and the wind is shrill.
Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, art in it?
Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will?
Hold us in quiet.
Amy Carmichael

Seeing someone read a book you love
is like hearing a book recommend a person
instead of the other way around.
Unknown

Deleting, defeating, depleting…thus it goes…in the morning.

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:

A blog without an ending is deleted in the morning.

That’s right – there are no April Fool’s pranks associated with this blog. You’re welcome.

Quotes from the Commonplace Book:

If a book is well written,
I always find it too short.
Jane Austen

God has promised to supply all our needs.
What we don’t have now,
we don’t need now.
Elisabeth Elliot

This is every cook’s opinion
No savory dish without an onion,
But lest your kissing should be spoil’d,
Your onions must be thoroughly boil’d.
Polish cookbook

There are many heads lying on Christ’s bosom,
but there is room for yours among the rest.
It is our heaven to lay many weights and burdens on Christ.
Lay all your loads and your weights by faith upon Christ.
Ease yourself, and let Him bear all.
He can,
He does,
He will bear you.
Samuel Rutherford

I know worrying works,
because none of the stuff I worried about
ever happened.
Will Rogers

That photo has been languishing in my blog photos file for quite some time now. Time to let it out.

I’ll be deletin’ this in the morning, no foolin’. Maybe.

What books are y’all reading these days? I’m working on the Georgette Heyer book, The Grand Sophy that was a favorite of my mom’s – this is probably my second read-through. I’m re-reading Surprised by Oxford, for the third or fourth time. It’s a memoir written by Carolyn Weber about her experience in unexpectedly finding Christ at Oxford. The commentary on Hosea by John Calvin is one that I’m plodding through and don’t expect to finish any time soon. I’m enjoying the book The Things of Earth, Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts, by Joe Rigney. My husband and I are reading through a book called How to be Unlucky by Joshua Gibbs, a second read-through for me and first for him.

Quotes from the Commonplace Book

There, peeping among the cloud-wracked above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end, the Shadow was only a small and passing thing; there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. …for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo’s side, and putting away all fear, he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep.
JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King

I always found that to be such a lovely quote near the end of The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien. In the midst of the most oppressive darkness over Frodo and Sam while they march forward to Mount Doom, Tolkien inserts this beautiful meditation by Sam as he sees a star peeping through the nearly unbreakable cloud cover. That last part reminds me of 1 Peter 5:7, in which we are told to “cast all our anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”

Being a writer doesn’t just mean writing. It means finishing.
Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark p. 15

Ouch, Andrew.

The tyranny of evil looks like love until you mount resistance. Underneath the velvet glove there lurks the iron fist.
Andree Sue Peterson

A guest in my home is God in my home.
Polish Saying

Would it be tyranny if I delete this in the morning?