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

1 "The center of power is not to be found in summit meetings or in peace conferences. It is not in Peking or Washington or the United Nations, but rather where a child of God prays in the power of the Spirit for God's will to be done in his life, in his home, and in the world about him." Ruth Bell Graham

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

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

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

5 "God, the great Creator of all things, does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence." Westminster Confession of Faith

6 "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

7 "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

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

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

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

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

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

13 "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot

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

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

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

17 "If you have never heard the mountains singing, or seen the trees of the field clapping their hands, do not think because of that that they don't. Ask God to open your ears so you may hear it, and your eyes so you may see it, because,….they do, my friend, they do." McCandlish Philips

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

19 "Mankind is one in nature and in the sight of God. No group of men is inherently superior or inferior to any other, and none is above any other beloved of God." The Delaware Conference, 1942

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

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

22 "Learn to commit your soul and the building of it to One who can keep it and build it as you never can." P. T. Forsyth

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

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

25 "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

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite