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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"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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"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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"Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark
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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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"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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"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." Hermann Hesse
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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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"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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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
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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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"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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"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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"He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren
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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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"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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