The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.
Sigrid UndsetI rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
Sigrid UndsetAll my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
Sigrid UndsetAnd when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
Sigrid Undset