Quotemeal: Dec. 22nd, 1949

Thursday, December 22, 1949

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

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"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
— Francis de Sales —
"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
— Blaise Pascal —
"The heart is rich when it is content, and it is always content when its desires are fixed on God."
— Miguel Cordero-Munoz —

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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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