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Living Quotations for Christians
Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors

1 "Mutual help is the law of nature." French proverb

2 "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

3 "The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself." Hermann Hesse

4 "The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God." Frank Borman

5 "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

6 "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

7 "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

8 "Not guided missiles but guided morals constitute our great need today." George L. Ford

9 "Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus

10 "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

11 "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

12 "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

13 "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

14 "He who loves not, lives not." Ramon Lull

15 "What are all histories but God manifesting himself?" Oliver Cromwell

16 "We pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing himself in." P. T. Forsyth

17 "A smile takes but a moment, but its effects sometimes last forever." J. E. Smith

18 "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

19 "The Engineer of the universe has made me part of his whole design." Leigh Nygard

20 "Love [is] incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent." Gordon W. Allport

21 "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

22 "In every real encounter with life and with our fellow men we meet the living Spirit, the Creator of life." J. H. Oldham

23 "Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God." Eugene Clark

24 "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

25 "Faith is the sight of the inward eye." Alexander Maclaren

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite