THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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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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"We can only grow as people by living in relationships, by in-depth communication, and by orientating ourselves towards justice and charity. Through this attitude we learn to live in 'correct proportions'." Catharina J. M. Halkes, Dutch Feminist theologian
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"Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one." Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), English co-founder of the London Oratory
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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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"If we can imagine the world as God's body, we not only include all people,…we include the whole of created reality." Catharina J. M. Halkes, Dutch Feminist theologian
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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"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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"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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"There is no corner of God's universe over which his love has not brooded." Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872), English theologian and writer
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"Do not do anything you hate to another." Saying of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (monks and nuns of the Egyptian desert)
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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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"A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart." John Calvin (1500-1564), French Reformation theologian
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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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"Human nature has ineffable dignity." John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308), Scottish Franciscan philosopher
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"Almighty and eternal God, there is not one circumstance so great as not to be subject to your power nor so small but it comes within your care." Queen Anne (1665-1714), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
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"If God can be found in all things, then there is nothing at all that can happen to us that we need fear." Margaret Hebblethwaite, theologian and spiritual writer
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"When you see your brother, you see your God." Apollo, 5th century desert father
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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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"In and through community lies the salvation of the world." M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author
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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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"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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- 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
- Choices are guided by the spirit of oneness, love, kindness, inclusion and community
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