Quotemeal for Thursday, December 29, 2005

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."

— Gaston Bachelard

More Quotemeal

"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

— Henry Ward Beecher —

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

— Charles Dickens —

"Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and..."

— Thomas Merton —

"The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, and..."

— Oswald Chambers —