LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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"The universe can be best pictured though still very imperfectly and inadequately, as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what we must describe as a mathematical thinker." James H. Jeans
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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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"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland
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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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"Dynamic psychology teaches that we can achieve inner health only through forgiveness – the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves." Joshua Loth Liebman
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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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"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light." Oswald Chambers
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"People may differ in tradition, language and religion, but they all have one common denominator: a desire to be treated like human beings." Stanley C. Allyn
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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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"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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"Mutual help is the law of nature." French proverb
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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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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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"This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good; To find its meaning is my meat and drink." Robert Browning, 'Fra Lippo Lippi'
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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
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"Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford
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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
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"The center of power is not to be found in summit meetings or in peace conferences. It is not in Peking or Washington or the United Nations, but rather where a child of God prays in the power of the Spirit for God's will to be done in his life, in his home, and in the world about him." Ruth Bell Graham
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"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren
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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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"Human personality and individuality written and signed by God on each human countenance….is something altogether sacred." Leon Bloy
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"We are all strings in the concert of His joy." Jacob Boehme
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"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day. No, no, man was made for immortality." Abraham Lincoln
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