Quotemeal: Jun. 2nd, 1956

Saturday, June 2, 1956

"People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not."
— Sydney J. Harris

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C. S. Lewis
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J. C. Ryle
"It is the highest and holiest of the paradoxes that the man who really knows he cannot pay his debt will be forever paying it."

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Illustration of Sydney J. Harris — "People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not."

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Quotemeal is a daily dose of Christian quotes to inspire and encourage.