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

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

2 "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

3 "Jesus Christ never met an unimportant person." M. C. Cleveland

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

5 "There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it, we breathe it, we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe." Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

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

11 "When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light." Oswald Chambers

12 "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

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

14 "In Christ may be seen that for which the whole universe has come into existence." Edwin Bevan

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

16 "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

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

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

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

20 "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

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

24 "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

25 "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

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite