Quotemeal: Dec. 29th, 1949

Thursday, December 29, 1949

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard

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— Philipp Melanchthon —
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— Oswald Chambers —
"In the total expanse of human life there is not a square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, "That is mine!""
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Illustration of Gaston Bachelard — "One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

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