Quotemeal: Jan. 26th, 2001

Friday, January 26, 2001

"The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?"
— Thomas Watson

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— L. Newbigin —
"From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross."
— Sadhu Sundar Singh —
"It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent."
— Jeremy Taylor —

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Illustration of Thomas Watson — "The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?"

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