| SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
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LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." George Washington Carver
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"We pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing himself in." P. T. Forsyth
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"There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it, we breathe it, we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe." Robert Louis Stevenson
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"When iron is rubbed against a magnet it becomes magnetic. Just so, love is caught, not taught. One heart burning with love sets another on fire." Frank C. Laubach
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"Only if God is reinstated in the heart of the world will he furnish mankind and its leaders with ethical guidance through the dangers and pitfalls of the space age." Wernher vonBraun
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"The final measure of greatness is whether you and I, by our individual lives, have increased the freedom of man, enhanced his dignity, and brought him nearer to the nobility of the divine image in which he was created." Herbert V. Prochnow
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"Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only he can see." Corrie ten Boom, holocaust survivor
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"Learn to commit your soul and the building of it to One who can keep it and build it as you never can." P. T. Forsyth
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"It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies society and a culture." Christopher Dawson
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"Trial is God's alchemy by which the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold." William Morley Punshon
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii
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"If you have never heard the mountains singing, or seen the trees of the field clapping their hands, do not think because of that that they don't. Ask God to open your ears so you may hear it, and your eyes so you may see it, because,….they do, my friend, they do." McCandlish Philips
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"How could anyone observe the mighty order with which our God governs the universe without feeling himself inclined…to the practice of all virtues, and to the beholding of the Creator himself, the source of all goodness, in all things and before all things?" Copernicus
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"The new physics does not regard the universe as atomic chaos but…has found strong evidence pointing to the existence of 'a directive intelligence.'" Arthur H. Compton
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"The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God." Frank Borman
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"In Christ may be seen that for which the whole universe has come into existence." Edwin Bevan
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"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." Oswald Chambers
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"The object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson
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"Human beings and human societies are not structures that are built or machines that are forged. They are plants that grow and must be tended as such." Winston S. Churchill
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"What are all histories but God manifesting himself?" Oliver Cromwell
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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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"It is not true that some human beings are by nature superior and others inferior. All men are equal in their natural dignity." Pope John XXIII
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"In every real encounter with life and with our fellow men we meet the living Spirit, the Creator of life." J. H. Oldham
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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
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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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