LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
|
|
| 1 |
"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
|
|
| 2 |
"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
|
|
| 3 |
"Human personality and individuality written and signed by God on each human countenance….is something altogether sacred." Leon Bloy
|
|
| 4 |
"The more I study nature the more I am amazed at the Creator." Louis Pasteur
|
|
| 5 |
"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
|
|
| 6 |
"We are all strings in the concert of His joy." Jacob Boehme
|
|
| 7 |
"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
|
|
| 8 |
"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
|
|
| 9 |
"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
|
|
| 10 |
"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
|
|
| 11 |
"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
|
|
| 12 |
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
|
|
| 13 |
"He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull
|
|
| 14 |
"A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. E. Smith
|
|
| 15 |
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." George Washington Carver
|
|
| 16 |
"Mutual help is the law of nature." French proverb
|
|
| 17 |
"The Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard
|
|
| 18 |
"The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence." Jeremiah Day
|
|
| 19 |
"In Christ may be seen that for which the whole universe has come into existence." Edwin Bevan
|
|
| 20 |
"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
|
|
| 21 |
"In every real encounter with life and with our fellow men we meet the living Spirit, the Creator of life." J. H. Oldham
|
|
| 22 |
"Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland
|
|
| 23 |
"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
|
|
| 24 |
"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
|
|
| 25 |
"The object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
|
Randomize this reference |
New random category
Add a comment
Reference and bibliography |
All quotes, by category
We are gathering together the primary insights of spirituality and bringing them together into one place.
This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
organized in terms of 39 primary categories. Quotes are randomized and appear in a different way at every click.
Explore the navigation options to review these insights.
We include
- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
- Sources in classical religion as well as voices from new consciousness, esotericism and mysticism
- Choices are guided by the spirit of oneness, love, kindness, inclusion and community
|
|
|
