the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit. — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
And 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 oceansand all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Overcome and sobbing, the young woman sank down before the cross at the side of the road, where thousands of pilgrims had lain and… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken it for granted that this peculiar North European form of the subjection of women since the Reformation was characteristic of the whole past of Europe. It was a little essay by an English writer, Virginia Woolf—I… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share
“No doubt the movement which rightly or wrongly we have learnt to call the emancipation of women is in the first place a result of the transformation of society into a capitalist and industrial community, in which the home has lost its importance as an economic and productive unity. But the bitter tone of the champions of Woman’s Rights in… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share
“Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God’s mercy is not great enough? . . .” — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
