LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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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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"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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"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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"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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"What are all histories but God manifesting himself?" Oliver Cromwell
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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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"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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"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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"It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies society and a culture." Christopher Dawson
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"A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. E. Smith
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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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"Human personality and individuality written and signed by God on each human countenance….is something altogether sacred." Leon Bloy
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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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"Look well into yourself: there is a source which will always spring up if you will search there." Marcus Antoninus
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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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"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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"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren
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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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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"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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"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland
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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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"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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"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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"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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