Sunday Snippets

"...and tied 'round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters.  'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not,' for she had never forgotten that, if you drink from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll


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"'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."
--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll


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"Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Be not wise in your own eyes;
fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.
It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Honor the LORD with the firstfruits of all your produce;
then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
for the LORD reproves whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights."
--Proverbs 3: 5-12, ESV


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"Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger."
--James 1:19, ESV


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"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
--The Constitution of the United States of America  (Yes, I was really reading that this week).


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"That's what I love about reading:  one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book.  It's geometrically progressive--all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."
--The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows