Quotemeal: Sep. 4th, 2012

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

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

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— John Ortberg —
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— St. John Chrysostom —
"You don't need to see the way if you follow the one that is the Way."
— Author Unknown —

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

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