LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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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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"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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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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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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"God, the great Creator of all things, does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence." Westminster Confession of Faith
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"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii
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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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"We are all strings in the concert of His joy." Jacob Boehme
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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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"He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull
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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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"What are all histories but God manifesting himself?" Oliver Cromwell
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"Mutual help is the law of nature." French proverb
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"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland
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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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"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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"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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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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 Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard
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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 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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