Category: Quotes

  • Saturday Book Notes — Les Miserables

    I know it’s common practice to make notations and highlights in non-fiction lit, but do you make notes and highlights in your favorite fiction books, too? I do. I will write on and/or highlight just about anything if it’s interesting (and still for long enough). As mentioned in a previous post, I am re-reading Les…

  • Reading and waiting (updated)

    Monday through Thursday afternoons, Abbey attends a band class at a local Christian school in which she is learning to play the flute. I am thankful for the local schools allowing homeschoolers to participate in some of their extracurricular activities. While I wait for her class to let out, I read. I usually bring a…

  • Quote of the Week

    “Now was I as one awaked out of some troublesome sleep and dream; and listening to this heavenly sentence, I was as if I had heard it thus expounded to me: Sinner, thou thinkest, that because they sins and infirmities, I cannot save thy soul; but behold My Son is by me, and upon Him…

  • A Quest for Godliness – April 22, 2012

    In 2012, I am following the lead of a few of my favorite bloggers and posting a quote or excerpt on Sundays. I’ve chosen A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life by J.I. Packer. “There are lessons for us in their program for family stability. It is hardly too much to say…

  • Quote of the Week

    Then that scripture gave me hope, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Heb xiii. 5. “O Lord,’ said I, but I have left Thee. Then it answered again, But I will not leave thee. For this I thanked God. John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners