LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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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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"The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." Hermann Hesse
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"The Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard
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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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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
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"Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford
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"The object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson
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"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren
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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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"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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"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland
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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii
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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 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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"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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"The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence." Jeremiah Day
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"We are all strings in the concert of His joy." Jacob Boehme
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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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"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 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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"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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"It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies society and a culture." Christopher Dawson
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