~”On our old icy island…”

by Rebekah // September 8, 2012 // 2 Comments

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” ‘On our old icy island people are fond of study. There isn’t a single farmer or fisherman who can’t read and doesn’t read. We believe that books, instead of mouldering behind an iron grating, far from inquisitive gazes, should be worn out under the eyes of a great many readers.’ ”

~Mr. Fridriksson in Jule’s Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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~Our Lord’s Commands…

by Rebekah // April 3, 2012 // 3 Comments

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“Last Sunday I showed you our Lord’s very words – that anyone is His disciple who does what He commands… The Lord says, ‘Love your enemies.’ Do you say, ‘It is impossible’? Do you say, ‘Alas, I cannot’? But have you tried to see whether He who made you will not increase your strength when you step out to obey Him?”

~Thomas Wingfold, The Curate’s Awakening by George MacDonald

~And Thus They Found…

by Rebekah // November 22, 2011 // 5 Comments

And thus they found the Lord to be with them in all their ways, and to bless their outgoings and incoming, for which let His holy name have the praise forever, to all posterity.

William Bradford Of Plymoth Plantation