#peter

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There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!


Michael Card


#faith #inspirational #peter #proof #faith

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.


Jasper Fforde


#peter-rabbit #humor

Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?


Ben Aaronovitch


#peter-grant #truth #humor

Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.


J.M. Barrie


#peter-pan #life

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#life #lord-peter-wimsey #humor

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time...


J.M. Barrie


#love

But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.' It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it.


Jennifer Paynter


#expectation #happiness #jane-austen #love #peter-bushell

I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter's hands were on my chair, and when I leaned back I could feel them against my shoulders.


Jennifer Paynter


#jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #loyalty #mary-bennet

When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward – in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible. For no chain is stronger than its weakest link.


G.K. Chesterton


#peter #the-catholic-church #the-papacy #the-pope #men

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.


J.M. Barrie


#fairies #fantasy #peter-pan #children