Quotemeal for 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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"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence."

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge —

"Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?"

— Gerard Majella —

"Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of..."

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"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."

— John Stott —