“ Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask... George Eliot
“ …mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections. Karen Swallow Prior
“ Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“ The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single… John Wesley
