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 cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
"Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts."
— François Fénelon —
"The human race is divided into two classes — those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?""
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. —
"A Christian is a keyhole through which other folk see God."
— Robert E. Gibson —

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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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