Quotemeal: Jul. 30th, 1954

Friday, July 30, 1954

"The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?"
— Richard Baxter

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— Clare of Assisi —
"The Christian's hope for the future must have a sanctifying influence upon the present."
— D. Edmond Hiebert —
"We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children."
— Frederick Denison Maurice —

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Illustration of Richard Baxter — "The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?"

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