Carmela Dutra Quotes

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Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

Carmela Dutra is an American author.  She excels as both a writer and illustrator.

Charles Swindoll Quote

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Discouraged people don’t need critics.  They hurt enough already.  They need encouragement.  They need a refuge–a willing, caring, available someone.

From Proverbs 25:11:  “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.”

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.

It is the heart that always sees, before the head can see.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born essayist, historian, and philosopher.  He was a leading writer of the Victorian era.

Stanley Grenz Quote

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Sovereignty means that ultimately God alone has the right to declare what creation should be.

From Proverbs 3:5-6:  “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.”

Stanley Grenz (1950-2005) was an American theologian and Christian writer.

Dale E. Turner Quotes

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Dreams are renewable.  No matter our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

Dale E. Turner (1917-2006) was an American pastor and Christian writer.  Many of his works shared an unfailing optimism with his readers.

Richard Eberhart Quotes

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A child is . . . such a knot of little purposeful nature!

Mind is a most delicate evidence.  Not a soul has seen it yet.

Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) was an American poet who published more than two dozen books of poetry.

Charles Stanley Quote

The Bible is a bottomless source of nourishment for becoming like Christ.

From Ephesians 5:8-9:  “For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.  Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.”

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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My books are friends, that never fail me.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born essayist, historian, and philosopher.  He was a leading writer of the Victorian era.

John Owen Quote

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There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.

From Romans 8:3-4:  “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”

John Owen (1616-1683) was an English Puritan church leader and theologian.

Charles Dickens Quotes

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Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer whose novels are generally considered some of the greatest published during the Victorian era.