We cannot divide either man or the universe... into two
parts which move on different planes and have no vital
relations; we cannot... limit the divine reaction against sin,
or the experiences through which, in any case whatever, sin is
brought home to man, to the purely spiritual sphere. Every sin
is a sin of the indivisible human being, and the divine
reaction against it expresses itself to conscience through the
indivisible frame of that world, at once natural and spiritual,
in which man lives. We cannot distribute evils into the two
classes of physical and moral, and subsequently investigate the
relation between them: if we could, it would be of no service
here. What we have to understand is that when a man sins he
does something in which his whole being participates, and that
the reaction of God against his sin is a reaction in which he
is conscious (or might be conscious) that the whole system of
things is in arms against him.
... James Denney, The Atonement and the Modern Mind [1903]

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To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ,
without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
... J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), "A Call to Prayer"

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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will
vibrate in eternity.
... Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880

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When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts,
then we see clearly the great need we have of God, since
without him we can do nothing good. No one is so good that he
is immune to temptation; we will never [in this life] be
entirely free of it.
... Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ

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Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house.
Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door
neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and
happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm
greeting.

Mother Teresa
(1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)


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"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person."

-- Mother Theresa


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"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life
is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is
possible."

-- Richard M. DeVos

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"Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions; but
only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them."

-- Nido Qubein

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What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.

Winston Churchill
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