Quotemeal: Dec. 28th, 2017

Thursday, December 28, 2017

"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."
— Lillian Hellman

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"We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in."
— John Milton —
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
— Francis de Sales —
"All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we...."
— Henry Benjamin Whipple —
"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises . . . leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

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Illustration of Lillian Hellman — "The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."

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