Quotemeal: Apr. 9th, 2018

Monday, April 9, 2018

"Concepts create idols, only wonder grasps anything."
— Gregory of Nyssa

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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."
— Benjamin Franklin —
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— J. H. Jowett —
"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
— Simone Weil —
"All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —

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Illustration of Gregory of Nyssa — "Concepts create idols, only wonder grasps anything."

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