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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 
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
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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)
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
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.
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
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
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
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
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
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
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
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
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
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
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
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
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bold Light of Spirit:
Out of the darkness and into the light,
Open our eyes and behold such a sight.
Brilliance of day takes the place of the night,
Boldness and courage are swords of His Might.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For with God all things are possible.
- The Bible
Christmas ... is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
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
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")
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
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
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
(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
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
In the beginning was the Word.
- John 1:1
What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
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
I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church
to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
- Pope Francis
Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
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
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
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
- Albert Einstein
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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