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

1 "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

2 "The universe is one of God's thoughts." Johann Friedrich von Schiller

3 "The object of love is to serve." Woodrow Wilson

4 "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

5 "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

6 "We are all strings in the concert of His joy." Jacob Boehme

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

8 "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

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

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

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

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

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

14 "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

15 "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

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

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

18 "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

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

20 "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

21 "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

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

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

24 "All people smile in the same language." Anonymous

25 "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

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite