Quotemeal for Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

— C. S. Lewis —

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is...."

— Hazlitt —

"If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there...."

— Charles H. Spurgeon —