True Normal

     "As an orthopedic surgeon, he treated many patients with deformities, and his daily encounters reminded him that normal had very little to do with the way one's bones were shaped. It had a lot more to do with the heart."

     ~ Eric Wilson & Theresa Preston

(October Baby by Eric Wilson and Theresa Preston, page 67)

Good Lies

     "Like all good lies, the story contained a lot of truth."

     ~ Anthony Horowitz

The Works of Jesus

     "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen."

     ~ John 21:25

Courage

"Here I take my stand. Remain where thou art, and if thou shalt attempt to diminish by one step the distance now between us, thou shalt see that the Jewish maiden will rather trust her soul with God than her honour to the Templar!"

~ Rebecca

True Christianity

"A Christian is not someone who has a belief, but someone who has a relationship with the living God. You come to know Him."

~ Kirk Cameron

The Ugliness of War

"...I hate the whole thin - the horror, the pain, the ugliness. War isn't a khaki uniform or a drill parade - everything I've read in old histories haunts me. I lie awake at night and see things that have happened - see the blood and filth and misery of it all. And a bayonet charge! If I could face the other things I could never face that. It turns me sick to think of it - sicker even to think of giving it than receiving it - to think of thrusting a bayonet through another man."

~ Walter Blythe

Pain and Death

"I don't think I'm afraid of death itself - it's of the pain that might come before death - it wouldn't be so bad to die and have it over - but to keep on dying!"

~ Walter Blythe

Truth

"Well, if you won't accept Tennyson as an authority, perhaps you will believe the words of a Greater than he. 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.' I believe that, Anne, with all my heart. It's the greatest and grandest verse in the Bible - or in any literature - and the truest, if there are comparative degrees of trueness. And it's the first duty of a man to tell the truth, as he sees it and believes it."

~ Gilbert Blythe

Enjoyment

"It's been by experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

~ Anne Shirley

Courage and Faith

"And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!"


~ Anne Frank

Change

"'...things will change, whether we like it or no, things won't go on for a long while just as they are and no difference.'"



~ Silas Marner, Silas Marner, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)