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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"We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts."
— A. W. Tozer —
"A life making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw —
"If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example."
— Thomas à Kempis —
"Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else."
— Rowland Croucher —

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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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