"Each one vaguely apprehends a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore to attain unto it each doth strive." Dante, 'Purgatorio', xvii. 127-129
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THE LION CHRISTIAN QUOTATION COLLECTION
Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers
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"Man was made for immortality." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), American President
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"It can seem as if the world is falling to pieces….and yet the call keeps coming, a call, I think, which is not so much to power as to community with all those others who are wounded, whose worlds or lives also seem to be falling apart, and yet who are actually – we must believe – giving birth to something new." Veronica Brady, Australian writer
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"In his will is our peace." Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet
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"All men are equal in their natural dignity." Pope John XXIII
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"There is no corner of God's universe over which his love has not brooded." Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872), English theologian and writer
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"To have a prayerful approach to people is to have eyes to see, a mind intent upon seeing, a heart hopeful of seeing the image of God in each person I meet, to see them in themselves and in God." Douglas Rhymes, contemporary English priest and author
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"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
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"Prayer is and remains always a native and deep impulse of the soul of man." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian
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"The love which we bear for others remains the mark of the authenticity of our contemplation." Roger of Taize, Co-founder and Prior of the Taize community
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"Do not do anything you hate to another." Saying of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (monks and nuns of the Egyptian desert)
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"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)
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"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
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"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
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"Love and justice march together…You cannot have one without the other." Stanley Booth-Clibborn, contemporary English Anglican bishop
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"All created things are living in the Hand of God." Jean Pierre deCaussade (1675-1751), French Jesuit writer
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"Every person may err, but not the whole gathered together, for the whole has a promise." Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), English Catholic writer
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"To say that God is Love is to say that God is the living, active, dynamic, ceaselessly desiring reality who will not let go until he has won the free response of his creation – and won this response, not by the employment of methods other than love, but by the indefatigable quality of his loving." Norman Pittenger, American-born process theologian
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"Man is free, for he is in the image of divine liberty; and that is why he has the power to choose." Paul Evdokimov, Russian Orthodox theologian
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"Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out." St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), Spanish Carmelite mystic
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"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
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"Every creature is by its nature a kind of effigy and likeness of the eternal Wisdom." Bonaventure (1221-1274), Italian Franciscan theologian
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and theologian
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"Yet of God's being who shall be able to speak? Of how He is everywhere present and invisible, or of how He fills heaven and earth and every creature, according to that saying, 'Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord'…The Spirit of God, according to the prophet, has filled the round earth." Columbanus (540-615), Irish monk
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"Prayer is a participation in the destiny of the world." Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944), Russian theologian
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"Our growth to a planetary dimension is an invitation to spiritual deepening, a purification from selfishness to a mre universal communion in real life, to our own humanization." Tissa Balasuriya, contemporary Sri Lankan theologian
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