Quotemeal: Dec. 22nd, 1945

Saturday, December 22, 1945

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
— Benjamin Franklin

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"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."
— Frederick Buechner —
"Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God."
— William Cowper —
"The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it."
— Jean Nicolas Grou —
"Forgiveness is the well from which we draw the water to wash others' feet."
— D. Siler —

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Illustration of Benjamin Franklin — "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.

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