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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
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
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
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
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
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 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
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
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- St. Francis of Assisi
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
For with God all things are possible.
- The Bible
It is the quality of our work which will please God
and not the quantity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust.
- Psalm 18:2
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
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
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")
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
Your worst days are never so bad
that you are beyond the reach of God's grace.
And your best days are never so good
that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
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
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
- The Bible
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Ask and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
- John 16:24
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- 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
In the beginning was the Word.
- John 1:1
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service,
to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
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
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
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
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul
grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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