Thought Provoking Quotes
331 Thought Provoking quotes by 158 unique authors
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
— H. Richard Niebuhr
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So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
— Martin Luther
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Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations…
— Robert J. Wicks
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
— Elie Wiesel
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One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place.…
— Henri Nouwen
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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable…
— Lewis Mumford
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough…
— Robert McAfee Brown
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One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
— Elie Wiesel
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If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.
— Elie Wiesel
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.
— Mother Teresa
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Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
— James Russell Lowell
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Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people…
— Jim Wallis
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by…
— Bruce Cockburn
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I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without…
— Elie Wiesel
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First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but…
— Martin Niemoller
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It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's…
— Martin Niemoller
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Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
— Jaroslav Pelikan
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
— Hans Kung
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Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
— Martin Luther
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
— Seneca the Younger
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
— Francis Chan
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