Quotemeal: Jan. 1st, 1950

Sunday, January 1, 1950

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
— Thomas Mann

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"As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them."
— Charles H Spurgeon —
"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
— Johannes Eckhart —
"To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge, to find the will of God is the greatest discovery, and to do the will of God is the greatest achievement."
— Author Unknown —
"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!""
— Abraham Kuyper —

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Illustration of Thomas Mann — "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."

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