Quotemeal: Oct. 12th, 1955

Wednesday, October 12, 1955

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the End of our journey, He is also at every stopping place."
— Elisabeth Elliot —
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
— Henry David Thoreau —
"However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will — unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself — not..."
— John of the Cross —
"I only know this, that if He had not sought me out, I would never have come to Him."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —

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Illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson — "The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

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