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

More Quotemeal

"Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God."
— Bonaventure —
"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
— Thomas Hardy —
"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee."
"The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable."

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