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21 " I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty. "
― Catherine Marshall , Christy
22 " I might never have realized who I really was or have gotten answers to the relentless questions that had driven me to the Cove without those quiet hours spent with Fairlight in the mountains. I do not know why it is that an intimate contact with wildlife and a personal observation of nature helps so much in this self-discovery. But that it is so, I have seen in other people's lives as well as my own....even a few bricks and macadam are a shield between us and the wisdom that nature has to give. "
23 " Dear God,' I said inside myself, 'when I came here, maybe I was partly running off from home for fun and freedom and adventure. But I have a notion that You had something else in mind in letting me come. Anyway if You can use me here in this Cove, well, here I am. "
24 " Quietly, Miss Alice was demonstrating this God of love and beauty too — in small ways and in large. For a few, the concept that life did not have to be all starkness and misery was slowly taking root. Tentatively, timidly – -constantly encouraged by Miss Alice — some of the women were at last reaching out for light and beauty and joy. "
25 " The lake is lovely," I commented, "And so big. I still find it hard to believe it's artificial.""Oh, it's artificial, all right. Dive deep and you may bash your head on tree stumps. "
― Catherine Marshall , Julie
26 " In my journal I logged this comment: "On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week. "
27 " Dean's eyes were studying me. "You have a way with words. What kind of writing do you want to do?""Articles for Dad's paper, to start.""What do you want to write about?"I paused, suddenly uncertain about how much to share. Dean's eyes were reassuring. "When I know more, I'd like to write about deeper things. "
28 " By jiminy, we do own the only newspaper in town. There must be some way we can use it to do some good there." - Mr. Wallace "
29 " There’s fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world. "
30 " Proofs of the week's paper were spread out on what I grandly called my desk. This was a rickety wooden table against the side wall outside the Editor's office. "
31 " I'd long since learned that no difference in viewpoint should ever be allowed to cause the least break in love. Indeed, it cannot, if it's real love....But relationships can be kept intact without compromising one's own beliefs. And if we do not keep them intact, but give up and allow the chasm, we're breaking the second greatest commandment. "
32 " God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking. "
― Catherine Marshall , Adventures in Prayer
33 " There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl. "
― Catherine Marshall
34 " I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church." "Then what is?""Salvation. "
35 " We don't have to accept blandness in life. God, who is the author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow his Holy Spirit to go to work inside us. "
― Catherine Marshall , A Closer Walk
36 " To know God as He really is-in His essential nature and character-is to arrive at a citadel of peace that circumstances may storm, but can never capture. "
37 " Fixin’ onything is man’s work,” came Opal’s firm answer. Tearin’ down or killin’, that thar’s easy. Any addle-pated fool kin pull the trigger of a rifle-gun or fling a rock. It’s fixin’ that’s hard, takes a heap more doin’. "
38 " I could also see just by looking around me how we tend to over-romanticize history. Life in those other centuries had not been all knights-and-ladies stuff. There was nothing romantic about cottages where eight or ten people slept in one room with no privacy; where there were no bathrooms, not even outside privies—even if the cottage did happen to have picturesque thatch on the roof. There was nothing glamorous in any century about no running water in which to bathe or about fleas on human beings; or about the blackgum twigs with which some of the women right now, in 1912, dipped snuff and then rubbed their teeth and gums. So many of the people had terrible-looking teeth or no teeth at all. And the eye trouble that was so prevalent. I had learned that it was trachoma and that it was a dangerous infection which, if unchecked, resulted in blindness. "
39 " There are precious things you can't pack and take with you, like the all-pervasive fragrance of honeysuckle. "
40 " A holiday would be a poor thing indeed without a great deal of game playing! "
― Catherine Marshall , A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall