THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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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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"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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"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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"Good deeds that are done for a good motive are the dead that live even in the grave; they are flowers that withstand the storm, they are stars that know no setting." Matthias Claudius (1740-1815), German poet
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"Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another." Isaac Pennington (1616-1679), English Quaker
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"For that is spirituality – thinking, feeling, and acting in love, and singing praises to our Divine Lover." Frances Young, contemporary British theologian
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"What must come first in all prayers, however varied they may be, and what gives them real value is the love with which they are made." Charles deFoucauld (1858-1916), French explorer
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"The spiritual exercise of the radiation of love is perhaps the most important prayer of transformatrion which anyone can make." F. C. Happold, contemporary English teacher and writer
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"Let us run towards the goal which from the beginning has been handed down to us, the goal which is peace; and let us fix our gaze on the Creator of the whole universe, and cling to his splendid and superlative gifts of peace." Clement of Rome (d.c.95), bishop of Rome
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"No one can live without symbols. The symbol is the true appearance of reality; it is the form in which reality discloses itself to our consciousness, or rather, it is that particular consciousness of reality. It is in the symbol that the real appears to us." Raimundo Panikkar, Indian Catholic theologian
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"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American journalist and preacher
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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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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and theologian
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"All the harmonies of creation find their resonance in man." Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), Russian 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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"The beloved John in his old age (according to Jerome in his commentary on Galatians 3:6) was in the habit of saying little else to his disciples other than 'Little children, love one another.'" Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705), German Lutheran pastor
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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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"We should love and feel compassion for those who oppose us, rather than abhor and despise them." Anthony Zaccaria (1502-1539), founder of the Barnabite Order
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"All religions must be tolerated. Every man must get to heaven in his own way." Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia
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"Man is free, for he is in the image of divine liberty; and that is why he has the power to choose." Paul Evdokimov, Russian Orthodox theologian
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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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"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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"God is always everywhere." Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215), Theologian
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"Prayer is and remains always a native and deep impulse of the soul of man." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian
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"Maybe you are asking where this house of God is to be sought, and where it may be found. God's house is the whole world." Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141), German monk and writer
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