LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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"Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark
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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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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"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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"Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii
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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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"Dynamic psychology teaches that we can achieve inner health only through forgiveness – the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves." Joshua Loth Liebman
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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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"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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"What are all histories but God manifesting himself?" Oliver Cromwell
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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
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"Learn to commit your soul and the building of it to One who can keep it and build it as you never can." P. T. Forsyth
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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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"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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"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 is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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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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"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 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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"A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. 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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"Look well into yourself: there is a source which will always spring up if you will search there." Marcus Antoninus
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