“I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh” Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice

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“A Mother who is really a Mother is never free.” Honore de Balzac

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“For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.” Psalm 86:5

“I cannot fix the hour, or the spot or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” Mr Darcy, after Elizabeth asks him when he began to fall in love with her, in Pride and Prejudice

“Mother, I love you so
Said the child, I love you more than I know.
She laid her head on her mother’s arm,
And the love between them kept them warm.” Stevie Smith

“”Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 Jesus’ great love was to lay down His life and call me friend!

“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.” Persuasion

“When I was a child my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” Pablo Picasso

“I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,” Psalm 31:7

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.” Danish proverb

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“…I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I cave continued my faithfulness to you.” Jeremiah 31:3

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley’s heart were entertained.” Pride and Prejudice

“I wonder how she does it, holding it together the way she does. It seems no matter how life gets out of place she puts it back the way it was. It’s always been a mystery, but I guess it must be true. That there is nothings stronger than a mother’s love when she uses Mother’s Glue” Markess A Wilder

“Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord” Psalm 32:10

“If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to ‘Yes,’ she ought to say ‘No’ directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.” Emma Woodhouse in Emma

“I’ve also realized that my dreams are not necessarily what really motivate my children to become the best they can be. What matters to them is my loving presence…If I want them to be open to my messages, I need to be willing to serve them-to voluntarily give up my rights and my time to meet their felt needs-just as Jesus was willing to give for his disciples.” Sally Clarkson in The Ministry of Motherhood

“The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Numbers 14:18

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others” – Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” Tenneva Jordan

“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in him.” I John 4:16

Welcome February!!  Last week I rambled on about loving Valentines day and laid out my plan to count down the days to Valentines with quotes.  Today begins the count down

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” – Pride and Prejudice

“A Mother’s love! O holy, boundless thing? Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!” Marguerite Blessington

“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8