THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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"Give rest to the weary, visit the sick, make provision for the poor, this is indeed prayer." Aphrahat (mid 4th century), Syriac monk
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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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"To strive for unity in diversity is a task we cannot evade." Mercy Amba Oduyoye, African theologian
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"The whole world ought to be regarded as the visible part of a universal and continuing sacrament, and all man's activities as a sacramental, divine communion." Dumitru Staniloae, Romanian Orthodox theologian
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"We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us." Thomas Merton, American Cistercian monk and writer
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"Only love lasts forever. Alone, it constructs the shape of eternity in the earthly and short-lived dimensions of the history of man on the earth." Pope John Paul II
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"We are all one in Thee, for all are Thine." William Walsham How (1823-1897), English bishop and hymn-writer
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"O marvellous, indescribable and joyful love, in you is all savour and sweetness and all delight, the contemplation of which exalts the soul." Angela of Foligno (1248-1309), Italian mystic
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"Incline us, oh God!....to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves." Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist
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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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"Every act formed by charity [love] is revelation of God." Gabriel Moran, Roman Catholic theologian
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"Only through Love can we attain communion with God." Albert Schweitzer
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"In his will is our peace." Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet
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"Imagination is the mother of creativity." Rubem Alves, Brazilian philosopher
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"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now." Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American sociologist
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"I ask for the angels of heaven to be among us. I ask for the abundance of peace. I ask for full vessels of charity." Brigid (d. 523), Irish nun
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"Prayer is a participation in the destiny of the world." Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), Russian theologian
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"God made us in his image and likeness. Therefore we are creators….The joy of creativeness should be ours." Dorothy Day, American Roman Catholic writer and social reformer
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"Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation." Anthony deMello, Indian Jesuit
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"Man is made in the image and likeness of God." Theodore the Studite (759-826), Greek monk
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"Wisdom is the treasure. And this treasure was hidden in the field of the human heart when man was created in the image and likeness of his Maker." Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141), German monk and writer
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"Man was made for immortality." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), American President
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"Love cannot be practiced without justice. Love cannot be built on injustice, for injustice is lovelessness. Love is not an alternative to justice….Justice is the beginning of love." Tissa Balasuriya, contemporary Sri Lankan theologian
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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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"The will of God is the measure of things." Ambrose (340-397), Bishop of Milan
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- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
- Sources in classical religion as well as voices from new consciousness, esotericism and mysticism
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