LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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"God, the great Creator of all things, does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence." Westminster Confession of Faith
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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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"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 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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"Love [is] incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent." Gordon W. Allport
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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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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 never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." Oswald Chambers
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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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"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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"Human personality and individuality written and signed by God on each human countenance….is something altogether sacred." Leon Bloy
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"A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. E. Smith
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"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." Hermann Hesse
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
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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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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii
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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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"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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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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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"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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"Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford
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"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland
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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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"We pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing himself in." P. T. Forsyth
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