Quotemeal: Dec. 22nd, 2025

Monday, December 22, 2025

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
— Benjamin Franklin

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"Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart."
— William Gurnall —
"Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing."
— John of the Cross —
"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them."
— Charles West —
"Though no one can go back and make a new beginning - anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.|"
— Carl Brand —

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Illustration of Benjamin Franklin — "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

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