LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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"The more I study nature the more I am amazed at the Creator." Louis Pasteur
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"Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark
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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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"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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"Mutual help is the law of nature." French proverb
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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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"Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." Oswald Chambers
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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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"A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. E. Smith
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Love [is] incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent." Gordon W. Allport
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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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"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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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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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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"Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford
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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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"He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull
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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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"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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