"Folklore and fairy tales are filled with lessons about the values of love, compassion, generosity, and caring for family, friends, the sick, and the elderly. These are the virtues that matter to heaven. These are the virtues that matter even if there is no heaven. And these are the virtues we are required to develop and refine on our spiritual journey."
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles - Caroline Myss
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LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
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"Love [is] incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent." Gordon W. Allport
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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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"Only if God is reinstated in the heart of the world will he furnish mankind and its leaders with ethical guidance through the dangers and pitfalls of the space age." Wernher vonBraun
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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 true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." Hermann Hesse
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"The object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson
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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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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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"The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller
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"The Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"We pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing himself in." P. T. Forsyth
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"What are all histories but God manifesting himself?" Oliver Cromwell
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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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 longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence." Jeremiah Day
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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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"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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"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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