Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 1960

Sunday, September 4, 1960

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens

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"The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches."
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"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."
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"God is more disposed to move on an admitted emptiness than a presumed fullness."
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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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