More from Mitford

I am so happy that circumstances led me to read the first Mitford book (years after they were "all the rage") and that I have now finished Book 9. So many wonderful quotes and thoughts and prayers in these books...

"...though thy prayer be feeble as the spark in the flax, He will not quench it; and though thy heart be bruised like a reed, He will not break it." (from a sermon of Charles Spurgeon delivered at Newington on March 9, 1873)

"A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. . . . The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself, and thinking about worship is a different thing from worshipping." (Letters to Malcolm, C. S. Lewis)

Forgiveness is giving up my right to hurt you because you have hurt me. (character of Father Tim)

"Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God." (Thomas a Kempis)

"May our sleep be deep and soft, so our work be fresh and hard." (St. Patrick's Hymn at Evening)

Found in "A New Song", the fifth novel