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The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers

1 "A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart." Charles G. Finney (1792-1875), American theologian

2 "Love and justice march together…You cannot have one without the other." Stanley Booth-Clibborn, contemporary English Anglican bishop

3 "Love goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not." Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian

4 "Turn our hearts, O Christ, to everlasting truth and healing harmony." Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Humanist scholar and Lutheran theologian

5 "Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated." George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist, poet and pastor

6 "God's glory is at work in all things. Everything that exists, exists because it is held, sustained, enlivened by God's wisdom and God's power. The Word of God who is God, God expressing himself towards his creation, wills at all times to work the mystery of his embodiment." Arthur Macdonald Allchin, contemporary British priest and writer

7 "Only love lasts forever. Alone, it constructs the shape of eternity in the earthly and short-lived dimensions of the history of man on the earth." Pope John Paul II

8 "A new day of interchurch and interreligious ecumenism is dawning….We are drawing nearer to the breadth of God." Walbert Buhlmann, Swiss-born Capuchin missiologist

9 "Yet of God's being who shall be able to speak? Of how He is everywhere present and invisible, or of how He fills heaven and earth and every creature, according to that saying, 'Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord'…The Spirit of God, according to the prophet, has filled the round earth." Columbanus (540-615), Irish monk

10 "The visible marks of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation, that a rational creature who will but seriously reflect on them cannot miss the discovery of deity." John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher

11 "Incline us, oh God!....to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves." Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist

12 "Faith is something infused into us, not produced by us." Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), English Catholic writer

13 "Let the fire of your prayer…burn always on the altar of your soul." John of Carpathos (ca. 7 ad), Greek monk

14 "If we can imagine the world as God's body, we not only include all people,…we include the whole of created reality." Catharina J. M. Halkes, Dutch Feminist theologian

15 "God made us in his image and likeness. Therefore we are creators….The joy of creativeness should be ours." Dorothy Day, American Roman Catholic writer and social reformer

16 "Awakening to the cosmic/earth/human process whereby all things have a genetic relationship with each other is the most significant intellectual achievement of humankind since the higher civilization came into being some 2,500 years ago. Nothing can be itself without being in communion with everything else." Thomas Berry, contemporary American theologian

17 "We are all one in Thee, for all are Thine." William Walsham How (1823-1897), English bishop and hymn-writer

18 "I am a part of all that I have met." Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet

19 "All are made in God's image." Diodochos of Photiki (c.400-486), Greek bishop and spiritual writer

20 "Wisdom is the treasure. And this treasure was hidden in the field of the human heart when man was created in the image and likeness of his Maker." Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141), German monk and writer

21 "All things proceed from God, who is at once the centre and the circumference from which all existing lines proceed and at which all end up." Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), Mexican nun, poet and scholar

22 "The spiritual exercise of the radiation of love is perhaps the most important prayer of transformatrion which anyone can make." F. C. Happold, contemporary English teacher and writer

23 "All the harmonies of creation find their resonance in man." Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), Russian theologian

24 "In the ultimate depths, everything good and true that people have ever known, thought, or lived comes from the one source of light. Our vocation is to make the way free for it." Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935), German founder of Christian communal movement in America

25 "Love cannot be practiced without justice. Love cannot be built on injustice, for injustice is lovelessness. Love is not an alternative to justice….Justice is the beginning of love." Tissa Balasuriya, contemporary Sri Lankan theologian

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite