Henry Ford

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production.

Francis Schaeffer

"No man can live without a worldview; therefore, there is no man who is not a philospher."

On Loving Others

"As I go through life I don't want to merely pass by people...I want to pass through them."





"People are God's greatest creation, invest in them"

"I have never met a person God didn't love and that I should love too."

"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."

"And I will be my brother's keeper, Not the one who judges him
I won't despise him for his weakness,I won't regard him for his strength
I won't take away his freedom, I will help him learn to stand
And I will, I will be my brother's keeper." Brother's Keeper, Rich Mullins

"Loving a person just the way they are, it's no small thing
It takes some time to see things through.
Sometimes things change, sometimes we're waiting.
We need grace either way." Loving a Person, Sara Groves

Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
~Chapter 1

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." Chapter 6

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. --Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
-Mr Bennet, Chapter 20

“I shall not say that you are mistaken,” he replied, “because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.” ~Mr. Darcy, Chapter 31


Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.[1] Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism and biting social commentary have cemented her historical importance as a writer. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.

Joni

"There are more important things in life than walking." ~The God I Love


In a diving accident in 1967 Joni Eareckson Tada was left hospitalized and paralyzed from the neck down.

Charles Dickens

"It a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
~A Tale of Two Cities





Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812–9 June 1870, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Some of his notable works include Sketches by Boz, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers.

J.R.R. Tolkien

"'You are a very fine person, Mr.Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!'
'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco jar."
~The Hobbit