Quotemeal: Jul. 27th, 1956

Friday, July 27, 1956

"A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."
— C. S. Lewis

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— Francis of Sales —
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— Thomas à Kempis —
"The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals."
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Illustration of C. S. Lewis — "A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."

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