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Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken
Related topics: Christian Religion
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
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
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
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
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
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
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
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
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)
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
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
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
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
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
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,
of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -
the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
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)
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For with God all things are possible.
- The Bible
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther
My concern is not whether God is on our side;
my greatest concern is to be on God's side,
for God is always right.
- Abraham Lincoln
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
- Psalm 18:2
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
(Jesus on Love)
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
Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
- John 16:24
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
Day by day we should weigh what we have
granted to the spirit of the world
against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus,
in thought and especially in deed.
- Albert Schweitzer
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
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