Aunt Ruthie

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A few quotes that I like:“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” -C.S. Lewis"Dance with God, He'll let the perfect man cut in.""If you're not willing to live your life for something greater than yourself, then life's not worth living." -Ruth Graham"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." -C.S. Lewis“I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life. I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.”"God will never leave you empty. If something is taken away, He will replace it with something better. If He asks you to put something down, it is so you can pick up something greater." -Roy Lessin"We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." -C.S. Lewis"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -Robert Frost"Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future." -Robert Collyer"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself." -Jean Anouilh"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle"Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time comes for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him." -Elisabeth Eliot from "Passion and Purity""I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." -Mother Teresa