Quotemeal for Friday, September 4, 2020

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

— Charles Dickens

More Quotemeal

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"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."

— John Henry Newman —

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