Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 1956

Tuesday, September 4, 1956

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens

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"Sin is like quicksand: Your own efforts only make you sink deeper. Only an outside hand can pull you out."
— Author Unknown —
"Persecution for righteousness' sake is what every child of God must expect."
— Charles Simeon —
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me."
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne —
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."
— Miguel de Cervantes —

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Illustration of Charles Dickens — "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

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