LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson
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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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"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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"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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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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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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"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 Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard
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"Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"In Christ may be seen that for which the whole universe has come into existence." Edwin Bevan
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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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"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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"Human personality and individuality written and signed by God on each human countenance….is something altogether sacred." Leon Bloy
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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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"Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark
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"He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull
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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." Hermann Hesse
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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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