Quotemeal: Apr. 3rd, 1962

Tuesday, April 3, 1962

"Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it."
— C. S. Lewis

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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens —
"If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?"
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Fear less, hope more;|Whine less, breathe more;|Talk less, say more;|Hate less, love more;|And all good things are yours."
— Swedish Proverb —
"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —

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Illustration of C. S. Lewis — "Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it."

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