As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
(Julius Caesar, during Gallic Wars, 1st century BC)
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
(Doug Larson)
If you do not hope, you will not find out what is beyond your hopes.
(Clement of Alexandria)
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
(Tertullian)
They converse as those who would know that God hears.
(Tertullian)
All men are made in God’s image; but to be in his likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God.
(Diodochos)
Love’s secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are very little ones.
(F.W.
Faber)
Christ sent me to preach the Gospel, and he will look after the results.
(Mary Slessor)
Justice belongs to God, not to governments and politicians.
(Naim Ateek)
Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it.
(Stephen Neill)
The purpose of revelation is restoration, the renewal in us of that likeness to God which man lost by sin.
(Stephen Neill)
The life of faith is a continually renewed victory over doubt, a continually renewed grasp of meaning in the midst of meaninglessness.
(Lesslie Newbigin)
The man of prayer finds his happiness in continually creating, searching, being with Christ.
(Brother Roger of Taizé)
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
(C.S. Lewis)
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