THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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"The symbols by which we structure our world have direct and substantive effect on how we act in that world." Janet Martin Soskice, British theologian
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"Every creature is by its nature a kind of effigy and likeness of the eternal Wisdom." Bonaventure (1221-1274), Italian Franciscan theologian
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"Life is a glorious road which leads to incomparable splendour, to the very life of God, to the goal of all things, to the full fruition of all that our hearts hold within them." Henri deTourville (1842-1903), French priest and spiritual writer
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"Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance it." Rubem Alves, contemporary Brazilian philosopher
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"Only in community can humanity reflect God and fulfil the image of God in which we were created for mutual relationship." Chung Hyun Kyung, Korean theologian
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"The good neighbour looks beyond the external…..and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." Martin Luther King, Jr., American Baptist pastor and civil rights leader
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"Love works in us and for us." John Cassian (360-435), monk and writer
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"Lord, purge our eyes to see within the seed a tree, within the glowing egg a bird, within the shroud a butterfly, till, taught by such, we see beyond all creatures, thee." Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), English poet
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"The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish." Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Italian mystic
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"There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature, and of nations." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish politician and orator
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"Human nature has ineffable dignity." John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308), Scottish Franciscan philosopher
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"The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life." Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist
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"Faith is something infused into us, not produced by us." Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), English Catholic writer
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"This is a sacramental universe, because God created all things visible and invisible." Donald M. Baillie, Scottish theologian
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"We were born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more." Joseph Cafasso (1811-1860), Italian priest and spiritual guide
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"Released by Love from isolating wrong, let us with Love unite our various song, each with his gift according to his kind." W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet and essayist
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"Every person may err, but not the whole gathered together, for the whole has a promise." Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), English Catholic writer
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"When you see your brother, you see your God." Apollo, 5th century desert father
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"He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbour." Bede (ca. 673-735), English monk
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"The most basic of all works of love [is] the work of human communication, of caring and nurturance, of tending the personal bonds of community." Beverly Wildung Harrison, American social ethicist
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"God discloses him- or herself to all people in all cultures at all times, because all human beings are capable of having an apprehension of God." Richard Harries, English Anglican bishop of Oxford
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"Only love enables humanity to grow, because love engenders life and it is the only form of energy that lasts forever." Michel Quoist, French writer
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"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American journalist and preacher
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"Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
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"Something is afoot in the universe, a result is working out which can best be compared to a gestation and birth: the birth of a new spiritual reality formed by souls and the matter they draw after them. Laboriously, by way of human activity and thanks to it, the new earth is gathering…and purifying itself. We are the leaves and flowers of a great tree, on which each appears at its time and place, according to the demands of the All." Pierre Teilhard deChardin, French theologian and scientist
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