Quotemeal: Jun. 1st, 1959

Monday, June 1, 1959

"Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago."
— John Wesley

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"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."
— Warren G. Harding —
"The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life."
— Robert Louis Stevenson —
"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 —
"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."
— John Donne —

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Illustration of John Wesley — "Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago."

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