“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”— Joanna Russ Related Quotes “If God gives you a gift and you don’t know what to do with it, it won’t make you happy. Some of you God gave a wonderful husband but you can’t make a home and some of you God gave a wonderful wife but you can’t make a good husband. Some of you can’t even unwrap the gift so that you can appreciate it.”— Patience Johnson “I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent…”— Anonymous inscription left in the wall of a German internment camp “A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.”– Lord Chesterfield