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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"Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal."
— Steve Kumar —
"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace. It is so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
— Martin Luther —
"One is a Christian 7/24/365 or he is but a tinkling cymbal."
— Richard H. Jett —

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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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