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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"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."
— Mark Aulson —
"We are Christians and strangers on this earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not this world."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —
"Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago."
— John Wesley —
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
— C. S. Lewis —

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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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