Channelling Beth Quotes

#1. Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Philip Yancey

#2. It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

Joan Didion

#3. But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely ... punishment?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

David Elkind

#5. Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise.

Emily C.A. Snyder

#6. I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

Aldo Leopold

#7. Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Plautus