Quotemeal: Dec. 21st, 1957

Saturday, December 21, 1957

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child Himself."
— Charles Dickens

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"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton —
"If we really think that home is elsewhere, and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,' why should I not look forward to the arrival?"
— C. S. Lewis —
"To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fear death as the greatest of evils, the wise desire it as a rest after labors and the end of ills."
— St. Ambrose —
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —

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Illustration of Charles Dickens — "It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child Himself."

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

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