“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”
~C.H. Spurgeon
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Quotation of the Day – July 31
“If you only throw down Baal to set up Ashteroth, what progress have you made towards God?”
~C.H. Spurgeon
Quotation of the Day – June 12
“Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words.” ~A. McIntyre, “After Virtue”
Quotation of the Day – May 29
“Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success—in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters, p.76
Quotation of the Day – May 15
“Good writers of prose must be part poet, always listening to what they write.” ~William Zinsser
Quotation of the Day – April 29
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was famous.”
~Robert Benchley
Quotation of the Day – April 25
“People say they can’t draw when they mean they can’t see, and that they can’t write when they mean they can’t think.”
~Aaron Haspel