Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 2008

Thursday, September 4, 2008

"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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"Peace is to be found in the acceptance of things we are unable to change."
— Author Unknown —
"Who but the same God Who stands in the darker, fouler rooms of our hearts and says, 'Yes, let the God of Heaven and Earth be born here — in THIS place.'"
— Leslie Leyland Fields —
"Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it."
— Tristan Gulberd —
"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."
— Matthew Henry —

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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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