Quotemeal: Jan. 26th, 1957

Saturday, January 26, 1957

"The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?"
— Thomas Watson

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"Any concern too small to be a prayer is too small to be a burden."
— Corrie ten Boom —
"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good."
— John Milton —
"The world does not need more Christian writers — it needs more good writers and composers who are Christians."
— C. S. Lewis —
"When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility."
— Armin Gesswein —

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Illustration of Thomas Watson — "The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?"

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