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Short attributable quotes from authors, theologians, historians, and public figures. Each entry carries an attribution and optional source field.

On Humility

“A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.” ——D. L. Moody “I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but my…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 6, 2005
Reading Time: 10 Minutes 

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On Faith and Doubt (Part 2)

“The gift of grace brings faith.” ——Gary Amirault “First you leap, then you grow wings.” ——William Sloane Coffin “Faith is a journey, not a guilt trip.” ——Author Unknown “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 4, 2005
Reading Time: 3 Minutes 

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On Faith and Doubt (Part 1)

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.” ——Charles Spurgeon “Don’t tell God how big your storm is, tell the storm how big your God is.” ——Author Unknown “Faith isn’t…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 4, 2005
Reading Time: 10 Minutes 

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On Courage (Part 2)

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 4, 2005
Reading Time: 8 Minutes 

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On Courage (Part 1)

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” ——Thoreau “It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 4, 2005
Reading Time: 8 Minutes 

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On Pain and Suffering

“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 4, 2005
Reading Time: 11 Minutes 

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Words From Atheists

…A dialogue between atheists and Christians….. “Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.” ——Heywood Broun “In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.” ——Jonathon…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 4, 2005
Reading Time: 11 Minutes 

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About God

“Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil, it has no point.” ——Author Unknown “There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything.” ——George MacDonald “Concepts about God and traditions about God are not God.”…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 2, 2005
Reading Time: 10 Minutes 

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On Discipleship

“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” ——Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.” ——John G. Lake “Some wish to hear the word of God, others wish…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jan 2, 2005
Reading Time: 11 Minutes 

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On Missions and Evangelism

“People who don’t believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South.” ——J. Howard…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: 2005
Reading Time: 10 Minutes 

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On Gratitude and Thanksgiving

“A grateful heart is a joyful heart.” ——Author Unknown “The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Dec 31, 2004
Reading Time: 6 Minutes 

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On Materialism, Greed, and Avarice

“The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Dec 30, 2004
Reading Time: 9 Minutes 

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On The Cross and Identifying With Christ

“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” ——C. S. Lewis “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one…

Author: Compiled by: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Dec 29, 2004
Reading Time: 12 Minutes 

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Dew1: A Quote By Napoleon

“I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on…

Author: Gary Amirault  //  Published: Jun 10, 1999
Reading Time: 1 Minutes 

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