Quotemeal: Oct. 17th, 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

"Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices."
— Thomas Fuller

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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
— Benjamin Franklin —
"May the grace of Christ our Saviour,|And the Father's boundless love,|With the Holy Spirit's favour,|Rest upon us from above."
— John Newton —
"Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness."
— John Climacus —
"It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver."
— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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Illustration of Thomas Fuller — "Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices."

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