For the love of books... {a guest post}

thanks so much for guest posting Grace!

I love books.

There is something about getting lost in another reality that is thrilling.

Books take us to the places we dream of.

They teach us lessons we never forget.

They open our eyes to the big world around us.

"A good book has no ending."

~ R.D. Cunningham

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled,

'This will change your life.'"

~ Helen Exley

"No man can be called friendless who has God

and the companionship of a good book."

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Never judge a book by its movie."

~ J.W. Eagan

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,

and all the sweet serenity of books."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotes from here.

"We read to know we are not alone."

~ C.S. Lewis

"A man who does not read good books

has no advantage over the man who can't read."

~ Mark Twain

"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."

~ Martin Tupper

"I was born with a reading list I will never finish."

~ Maud Casey

"Oh please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away.

And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on your wall."

~ Roald Dahl

Quotes from here.

Some of my favorite books...

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Set-Apart Femininity by Leslie Ludy

Crazy Love by Francis Chan

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

I Dared to Call Him Father by Bilquis Sheikh All pictures from my Pinterest board "books".