Five Quotes, vol. x

This week's Five Quotes image is brought to you by all the Winnie-the-Pooh I've been reading for our family read-aloud.  A few years ago our family was eating at a restaurant in Ilkley, North Yorkshire, and I was looking for something simple one of my kids could enjoy.  Seeing sourdough toast with butter and honey made me think of the original Disney Winnie-the-Pooh movie when Rabbit asks Pooh if he'd like condensed milk or "honeyonyourbread."  

"Owl looked at him, and wondered whether to push him off the tree; but, feeling that he could always do it afterwards, he tried once more to find out what they were talking about."

- The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

"And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything.  There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."

- The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

"By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly.  For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, 'There is no hurry.  We shall get there some day.'  But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late."

- The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

"When in honesty we accept the evil that is in us as part of he truth about ourselves and offer that truth up to God, we are in a mysterious way nourished.  Even the truth about our shadow side sets us free (John 8:32)."

- Prayer:  Finding the Heart's True Home, Richard J. Foster

"C.S. Lewis notes, "The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool."

- quoted in Prayer:  Finding the Heart's True Home, Richard J. Foster.