LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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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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"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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"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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"Love [is] incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent." Gordon W. Allport
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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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"It is through struggle the lion has gained its strength, the deer its speed, the dog its sagacity. The suffering which the conflict involved may indicate that God has made even animals for some higher good….The ends are eminently worthy of a Divine Intelligence." Robert Flint
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"We are all strings in the concert of His joy." Jacob Boehme
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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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"Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark
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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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"Mankind is one in nature and in the sight of God. No group of men is inherently superior or inferior to any other, and none is above any other beloved of God." The Delaware Conference, 1942
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"Culture shapes, but self-awareness re-shapes, and the resources of God are ever available for the reconstruction." James L. Johnson
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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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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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"He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull
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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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"A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. E. Smith
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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 object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson
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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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"We see God all around us: the mountains are God's thoughts upheaved, the rivers are God's thoughts in motion, the oceans are God's thoughts imbedded, the dewdrops are God's thoughts in pearls." Sam Jones
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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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"Mutual help is the law of nature." French proverb
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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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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