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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"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."
— Billy Sunday —
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— Thomas Manton —
"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed round our incompleteness ..."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
"The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new..."
— Philip Yancey —

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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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