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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” — Margaret Atwood
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” Laura Ingalls Wilder
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” — Rachel Carson
“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” — Thomas Merton
“God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.” — C.S. Lewis
“The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.” — M.R. DeHaan
“A rent garment is catched by every nail, and the rent made wider. Renew therefore thy repentance speedily, whereby this breach may be made up, and worse prevented.” — William Gurnall
“You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.” — Helen Keller
“The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.” — Matthew Henry