A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
If Christ were here now there is one thing
he would not be - a Christian.
- Mark Twain
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister,
to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
In the beginning was the Word.
- John 1:1
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
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