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I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God's flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss and said, Man. Where you been.
- Barbara Kingsolver
They both went quiet, imagining a river of irises. Thatcher lay watching the sky through the leaves, white clouds skipping across small lenses of light. Here was a world, where he'd asked for nothing. He would escape with his life before the dust had settled on the collapse of his falling house.
- Barbara Kingsolver
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
- Barbara Kingsolver
If I got to make just one law, it would be that the men who make the decisions to drop bombs would first, every time, have to spend one whole day taking care of a baby. We were not made to do this killing thing. I swear. Back up. It's a big mistake.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
- Stephen Covey
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
- Stephen Covey
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
- Teresa of Avila
Keep your heart pure. A pure heart is necessary to see God in each other. If you see God in each other, there is love for each other, then there is peace.
- Mother Teresa
In everything, love simplicity.
- Francis de Sales
To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.
- JI Packer
Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.
- Desmond Tutu
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
- Nelson Mandela