THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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"It can seem as if the world is falling to pieces….and yet the call keeps coming, a call, I think, which is not so much to power as to community with all those others who are wounded, whose worlds or lives also seem to be falling apart, and yet who are actually – we must believe – giving birth to something new." Veronica Brady, Australian writer
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"Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out." St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish Carmelite mystic
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"Our growth to a planetary dimension is an invitation to spiritual deepening, a purification from selfishness to a mre universal communion in real life, to our own humanization." Tissa Balasuriya, contemporary Sri Lankan theologian
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"A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart." John Calvin (1500-1564), French Reformation theologian
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"I know myself now, and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet
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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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"God is always everywhere." Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215), 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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"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 more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life." Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist
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"To have a prayerful approach to people is to have eyes to see, a mind intent upon seeing, a heart hopeful of seeing the image of God in each person I meet, to see them in themselves and in God." Douglas Rhymes, contemporary English priest and author
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"All things proceed from God, who is at once the centre and the circumference from which all existing lines proceed and at which all end up." Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), Mexican nun, poet and scholar
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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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"Yet of God's being who shall be able to speak? Of how He is everywhere present and invisible, or of how He fills heaven and earth and every creature, according to that saying, 'Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord'…The Spirit of God, according to the prophet, has filled the round earth." Columbanus (540-615), Irish monk
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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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"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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"Man was made for immortality." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), American President
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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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"Love goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not." Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian
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"When you see your brother, you see your God." Apollo, 5th century desert father
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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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"It is God's will that everything he has made should offer him glory." John of Carpathos (ca. 7 ad), Greek monk and spiritual guide
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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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"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 you want to find rest in all circumstances, say Who am I? and do not judge anybody." Joseph of Panephysis, Desert Father
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- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
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