THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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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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"A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart." Charles G. Finney (1792-1875), American theologian
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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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"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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"Love and justice march together…You cannot have one without the other." Stanley Booth-Clibborn, contemporary English Anglican bishop
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Man is made in the image and likeness of God." Theodore the Studite (759-826), Greek monk
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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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"Only through Love can we attain communion with God." Albert Schweitzer
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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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"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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"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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"In its highest unity, all that moves us in feeling is one….our being and living is a being and living in and through God." Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), German theologian
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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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"Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation." Anthony deMello, Indian Jesuit
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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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"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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"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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"You can never love your neighbour without loving God." Jacques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704), French philosopher and bishop
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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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"Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
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