Quotemeal: Dec. 29th, 2009

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
— Gaston Bachelard

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"The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one."
— Reinhold Niebuhr —
"The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God."
— John the Short —
"Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue."
— St. John Chrysostom —
"Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life."
— Jonathon Edwards —

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Illustration of Gaston Bachelard — "One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

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