Quotemeal: Jul. 25th, 1950

Tuesday, July 25, 1950

"Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars."
— Thomas à Kempis

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"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."
— Lillian Hellman —
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians."
— John Tillotson —
"The voices of the world are loud and sparse, but the voice of God is a constant whisper."
— Benjamin J. Elger —

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Illustration of Thomas à Kempis — "Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars."

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