Quotes–part 2

From the previous post, here’s the second quote I’m hoping to not lose:

“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives…. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.” ~ John Ruskin

Quotes

I came a cross a couple of quotes that I’d saved. In an effort to not lose them, I’m posting them here. Perhaps you’ll appreciate them as well.

Here’s the first:

“We assume miracles arrive like bolts from the blue. But most real miracles are built arduously, stone by stone, and only when seen from the perspective of the whole are they revealed to be miraculous. For this reason, we tend to miss the wonders happening right next to us, because they are occuring in slow motion and rendered invisible by the filter of our expectations.” ~ Celeste Fremon, journalist