Quotemeal: Apr. 16th, 1949

Saturday, April 16, 1949

"The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."
— Frederick Buechner

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"The more we meditate on the cross, the deeper our companionship and knowledge gets of Christ the Lord."
— Pishoy Kamel —
"Politeness is the blossom of our humanity."
— Joubert —
"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."
— Frederick Ward Kates —
"It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end."
— François de Sales —

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Illustration of Frederick Buechner — "The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are."

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