LIVING QUOTATIONS FOR CHRISTIANS
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors
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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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"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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"In every real encounter with life and with our fellow men we meet the living Spirit, the Creator of life." J. H. Oldham
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"In Christ may be seen that for which the whole universe has come into existence." Edwin Bevan
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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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"All people smile in the same language." Anonymous
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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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"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
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"The Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard
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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
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"This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good; To find its meaning is my meat and drink." Robert Browning, 'Fra Lippo Lippi'
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii
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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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"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 strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
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"Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith
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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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"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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"Look well into yourself: there is a source which will always spring up if you will search there." Marcus Antoninus
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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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"Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren
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"Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark
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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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