Quotemeal: Dec. 22nd, 2005

Thursday, December 22, 2005

"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 shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him."
— John Owen —
"Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing."
— Alexander Dumas —
"The purpose of religion — at any rate, the Christian religion — is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you."
— Frederick Ward Kates —
"The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't."
— Phillips Brooks —

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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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