"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an……" — Ruth Pitter
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
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13 Quotes by Ruth Pitter
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All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched…
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A…
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows…
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
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And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from…
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To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write…
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I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.
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I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to…
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There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I…
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Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I…
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I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall…
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It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning…
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds…
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
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India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
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