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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"But all the wickedness in the world that man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea."
— William Langford —
"The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return."
— Sundar Singh —
"The greatest of all visions is to see Christ, indeed, to see God, in the frail and glorious human family of the world."
— MacRina Wiederkehr —
"What seems too difficult for us is a sure sign that it belongs to God."
— Marie DePree —

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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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