Nettle Hailglow

“I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of desolate frustration.”
― Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly

“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.”
― Walt Whitman

“. . . if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, The Mapping of Love and Death