Five Quotes, vol. ix

"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."
- Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne


"Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots.  As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything."
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne


"Adventures are all very well in their place, he thought, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain."
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman


"The Lament Psalms teach us to pray our inner conflicts and contradictions...They give us permission to shake our fist at God one moment and break into doxology the next."
- Prayer by Richard J. Foster


"We may not see the end from the beginning, but we keep on doing what we know to do.  We pray, we listen, we worship, we carry out the duty of the present moment.  What we learned to do in the light of God's love, we also do in the dark of God's absence."
- Prayer by Richard J. Foster.