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

1 "Hold fast to love in all sincerity, give each other practical proof of it." Fulgentius of Ruspe (468-533), North African bishop and writer

2 "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

3 "The beloved John in his old age (according to Jerome in his commentary on Galatians 3:6) was in the habit of saying little else to his disciples other than 'Little children, love one another.'" Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705), German Lutheran pastor

4 "There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature, and of nations." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish politician and orator

5 "God discloses him- or herself to all people in all cultures at all times, because all human beings are capable of having an apprehension of God." Richard Harries, English Anglican bishop of Oxford

6 "In solidarity, God speaks the language of love." Jon Sobrino, El Salvadorean liberation theologian

7 "Do not do anything you hate to another." Saying of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (monks and nuns of the Egyptian desert)

8 "Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now." Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American sociologist

9 "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

10 "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

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

12 "Love begins as love for one or for a few. But once we have caught it, once it has taken possession of us, and has set up its own values in the heart of the self, there are no limits to those it can touch, to the relationships which it can transform." John Austin Baker, contemporary British theologian

13 "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

14 "Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American journalist and preacher

15 "The whole sensible appearance of things is the lotus flower which is God, the country of all of us." Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), Italian bishop and poet

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

17 "A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart." John Calvin (1500-1564), French Reformation theologian

18 "Only through Love can we attain communion with God." Albert Schweitzer

19 "Lord, purge our eyes to see within the seed a tree, within the glowing egg a bird, within the shroud a butterfly, till, taught by such, we see beyond all creatures, thee." Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), English poet

20 "Faith is an active creative force." J. H. Oldham, Scottish-born ecumenist

21 "Human beings ought to communicate and share all the gifts they have received from God." Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), Dominican mystic

22 "I pray that since we are all made of the same substance…we may love one another with a single love." Antony of Egypt (c.251-356), Egyptian ascetic

23 "That which is made in the image of the Deity necessarily possesses a likeness to its prototype in every respect." Macrina (327-379), founder of a women's community in Pontus (modern Turkey)

24 "Prayer is and remains always a native and deep impulse of the soul of man." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian

25 "We pray because we are made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing himself in." Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921), Congregationalist pastor

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite