THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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"I pray that since we are all made of the same substance…we may love one another with a single love." Antony of Egypt (c.251-356), Egyptian ascetic
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"If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire." Simone Weil (1909-1943), French philosopher and mystic
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"Whatever belongs to the whole in some way seems to fit in with any part." Peter Damian (1007-1072), Italian church reformer
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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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"The whole sensible appearance of things is the lotus flower which is God, the country of all of us." Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), Italian bishop and poet
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"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk." George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist, poet and pastor
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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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"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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"The whole sensible appearance of things is the lotus flower which is God, the country of all of us." Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), Italian bishop and poet
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American journalist and preacher
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"Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated." George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist, poet and pastor
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"All men are equal in their natural dignity." Pope John XXIII
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"The world is made up of all kinds of good things, and gives sufficient indication of the great good in store for the one for whom all this was provided." Tertullian (c.150-212), North African church father
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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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"O wonderful mystery! The Father of all things is one; the Word of all things is one; the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere." Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215), Theologian
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"Human beings ought to communicate and share all the gifts they have received from God." Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), Dominican mystic
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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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"Love goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not." Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian
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"Awakening to the cosmic/earth/human process whereby all things have a genetic relationship with each other is the most significant intellectual achievement of humankind since the higher civilization came into being some 2,500 years ago. Nothing can be itself without being in communion with everything else." Thomas Berry, contemporary American theologian
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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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"Love begins as love for one or for a few. But once we have caught it, once it has taken possession of us, and has set up its own values in the heart of the self, there are no limits to those it can touch, to the relationships which it can transform." John Austin Baker, contemporary British theologian
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"A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love." Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Italian mystic
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"It is inter-faith ecumenism that should be the aim for us all at this moment in history." Trevor Huddleston, English Anglican missionary
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"I am a part of all that I have met." Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet
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"Imagination is the mother of creativity." Rubem Alves, Brazilian philosopher
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