Quotemeal: Dec. 22nd, 1949

Thursday, December 22, 1949

Blessed Christmas!

Our prayer is that the presence of Jesus be with you and fill you with hope, peace, and love!

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

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"Look around the habitable world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."
— John Dryden —
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— David Edwards —
"Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after."
— Thomas Fuller —
"Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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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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'In the Name of Jesus' (Co. 3:15-17)
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