Wonderful quotes are made when a person has an extraordinary gift to take ordinary words and create something amazing. The following quotes are a few examples:
“What do you mean by keeping true?” Jared asked, laying down his brush to rest his arm.
Mr. Toppan looked at him until his eyes seemed not to see the boy Jared, but the man Jared might become, then he said quietly.
“It’s letting God have your life, so that your hands do the work He wants you to do. You’ve begun rightly, Jared, for that is the beginning and end of all my teaching.”
-The Journeyman
“Winter comes when there are no leaves. Night comes when there is no light. But if I make a design like the design the boughs make against the sky, it could be repeated anywhere, and you could always have beauty.”
-Jared Austin, The Journeyman
“The true meaning of friendship and Christ-like love in the face of the enemy.”
Via on Number the Stars
“A story of bravery, heartache, courage, and great hope…”
– Anna on Lines of Courage
“Faith, without action, is no faith at all. Love, without sacrifice, is no love at all.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Faithful Spy
“Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.”
― Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows
“Some fight the darkness head-on,” he said. “Others try to create so much light that it cannot take hold in the first place. We need both sorts of people in this world.”
― Cassie Beasley, The Bootlace Magician
“He moved through the days in peace and wonder, for his whole story had been told for the first time, and he found that he was still loved.”
― Andrew Peterson, North! Or be Eaten
“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is ask for help.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it’s such an interesting world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It takes a super brave person to be as generous as you are, Hyacinth. Not many people are brave enough to be so loving.”
― Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“Books themselves are freedom. Freedom to think, to believe, to dream.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire
“I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine.”
― Louisa Alcott, Little Women
“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
“The Green Ember burns; the seed of the New World smolders. Healing is on the horizon, but a fire comes first. Bear the flame.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember
“Don’t try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“You never need an invitation to go home.”
― Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus
“Would you say…that you’re yourself around her? I always think that’s the true measure of how good a friend is.”
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