Nicholas & Megan Clinch

“draw us to the hearthside of your presence. Send silence to halt our frenzied ways and quiet to lead us homeward to where your love has laid a feast. Help us to recall the grace in which we already stand, the love that need never be asked for because it is already given, the home that has already been made in our hearts by your Spirit and waits for our weary arrival.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention

“that a woman with her sleeves tucked up above her elbows might know all about the Subjunctive Mood or the Torrid Zone—that, in short, she might possess “education” and other good things ending in “tion,” and worthy to be pronounced emphatically, without being a useless doll.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“but let us be careful not to confuse sharing with giving. Giving requires something of the giver in a way that sharing does not. Sharing is based on equality, giving on inequality (as Chesterton puts it, “charity certainly means one of two things—pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people”
― Ryan Whitaker Smith, Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton

“and—where is the blameless woman?—apt to be a little severe towards her own sex, which in her opinion was framed to be entirely subordinate. On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men,”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch