Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 2012

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
— Charles Dickens

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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
— Lane Olinghouse —
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
— G. K. Chesterton —
"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven."
— Charles Williams —

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Illustration of Charles Dickens — "Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."

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