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

1 "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

2 "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Shakespeare, 'Troilus and Cressida', III, iii

3 "Faith is the subtle chain that binds us to the infinite." O. E. Smith

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

5 "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

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

7 "Look well into yourself: there is a source which will always spring up if you will search there." Marcus Antoninus

8 "It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies society and a culture." Christopher Dawson

9 "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

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

11 "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'

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

13 "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

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

15 "Human personality and individuality written and signed by God on each human countenance….is something altogether sacred." Leon Bloy

16 "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

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

18 "The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence." Jeremiah Day

19 "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

20 "Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading." Oswald Chambers

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

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 "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

24 "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

25 "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

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite