Quotemeal: Jan. 3rd, 2024

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."
— Goethe

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"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."
— C. S. Lewis —
"Who sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing; yet against one thing shall he continually battle: that is, his own..."
— St. Antony —
"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. And only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit round and pluck blackberries."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning —
"True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God."
— Alexander MacLaren —

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Illustration of Goethe — "Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

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