I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs–again and again–but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.
Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn’t get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.
From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother’s words–perceptive and many others–have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.
…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.
…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.
What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.
Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and ‘be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…’ – Hannah More
I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” – Hannah More
The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.