#muffin

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#better #blots #book #buttered #dirt

Give me liberty or a bran muffin! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#give #give me #give me liberty #liberty #me

The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#ragamuffin-gospel #beauty

The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faithfulness #ragamuffin #faith

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#forgive #ragamuffin #sin #sinners #forgiveness

He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned. ↗

— Garth Nix

#handsome #ragamuffin #arrogance

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#beauty

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#favorite #muffins

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here. ↗

— Aaron Funk

#certainly #here #i #i believe #i believe the