I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

A good upbringing means not that you won&#39;t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won&#39;t notice it when someone else does.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother’s womb.

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.

Wherever they might wander out in the world, whithersoever they might fare, forgetful of their mother, she felt as though for her their life must still be an action of her life, they must still be as one with herself as they had been when she alone in all the world knew of the new life which lay hidden within and drank of her blood and made her cheeks pale.” –p. 329-30

The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows—that was the visible sign.

But it looked as if Brother Edvin had become so wrinkled simply from smiling at people. Kristin thought she had never seen anyone who looked so cheerful or so kind. He seemed to carry within him a luminous and secret joy, and she was able to share it whenever he spoke.

Sigrid Undset

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