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Inspirational Quotations  A-C
Dear Reader,
 
For over two decades I have collected quotes from books and magazines I’ve read as well as from internet searches when researching certain topics or themes.  This collection is made to be added to as I continue to collect and by you also if you have quotes you would like us to add to this working compilation.  Simply add them as a comment and once approved we will join them to the collection. 
            Three disclaimers:  1.  Oswald Chambers is my all-time hero as a writer-speaker and therefore you will find that by far he is the most quoted author/speaker.  If you have never heard of him, I highly recommend My Utmost For His Highest.   2.  This collection is heavily tilted towards ministry—if you are in ministry and love speaking and writing you will get the most out of this.  Regardless, there is much for anyone.  3.  Do not assume quotations reflect my viewpoint. I’ve included a vast array of thoughts and opinions not because I agree with them but because they are thought-provoking.  The beauty of language is often found in the formatting and word selection!  
            Finally, this collection is offered free.  If you find it to be useful and you frequently hunt for quotes for speaking or writing here, please consider donating to First Cause which you can do right on this website.  Your gift helps us build better speakers and writers globally!    Enjoy!
 
Daniel York
First Cause Director and Author/Speaker 

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Blank

When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means, or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means.—Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest
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Cunning

Cunning is knowing the difference between merely letting a moment happen and making a moment happen.—Michael Thompson in The Heart of a Warrior
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Coercion

Coercion can easily erode trust, demoralize your team, lead to high turnover rates, and create a toxic environment that impedes productivity.—Dennis O’Neil & Greg Hiebert in Changing Altitude: How To Soar In Your New Leadership Role
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Claims

If a culture reaches the point where Christian claims are not even part of its plausibility structure, fewer and fewer people will be able to entertain the possibility that they might be true.—J.P. Moreland in Love Your God With All Your Mind
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1/4/2023 0 Comments

Accomplishment

​If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.—Unknown Texas Genius
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Boundaries

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.--Unknown

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Agitate/Agitation

​This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.--Marcus Aurelius

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Complicate

​When you complicate your life, you work against yourself.—Kevin Knebl
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Conservatism

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.—Clinton Rossiter ​
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Complacency

But the weakness-is-my-identity kind of Christian life is a dreadful mistake.  It is complacency.—Jan David Hettinga in Follow Me

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Beginning

Beginnings depend on endings.—William Bridges and Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change p. 27
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To make a new beginning, in other words, people need the Four P’s: the purpose, a picture, the plan, and a part to play.—William Bridges and Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change p. 68
Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something.—Paul Valéry 
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Benedict Option

The Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church to embrace “exile in place” and form a vibrant counterculture.—Rod Dreher in The Benedict Option p. 16
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Axiology

​Axiology. The study of value. It is that aspect of philosophy that is concerned with right and wrong, good and evil, means and ends. It tries to formulate a consistent theory to govern ethical conduct. This branch of philosophic thoughts asks the question, "What is good?" . . . Axiology is the theory and science of value.—Michael Anthony & Warren Benson in Exploring the History and Philosophy of Christian Education: Principles for the 21st Century, pp. 384,389 
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1/27/2021 0 Comments

Autosexuality

​Seven Reasons to Resist Autosexuality
First, it is not necessary . . . There is no freedom nor peace in bondage to masturbation. Second, masturbation does not decrease sexual tension; it only increases it . . . Third, autosexual conduct usually involves sexual sin and lust in the fantasy realm even though it may not be focused on any one person. Fourth, autosexuality fixates on one’s own sexual organs and sexual desires, the opposite of a shared sexual relationship with one’s mate. Fifth, it is habit forming . . . Sixth, in almost every form of sexual bondage from promiscuity to homosexuality and pornography, autosexual stimulation plays a central part . . . Finally, there can be a definite demonic dimension to uncontrolled masturbation. I have cast demons of masturbation out of the lives of sexually bound men and women.—Dr. Ed Murphy in The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare pp. 150,151
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Counsel

Always beware when you are perfectly certain you are right, so certain that you do not dream of asking God’s counsel.  Our confidence rests not with our wits, but with God.  We must never depend on our own moral judgment or our intellectual discernment or our sense of right and justice.  All these are right in themselves, but not right in us; we can only be right as we remain absolutely confident in God.—Oswald Chambers in Not Knowing Where
            
Rather, the marks of Christ, by which an individual is identified as having been with him, are found within life at every homely moment: in the eyes that kindle with sympathy, that grow warm with kindliness or that flash with holy indignation on another’s behalf; in the voice that gives quiet counsel to the confused, offers friendliness to the lonely, encourages the downcast, bears witness to faith in God and brotherliness through Jesus; in the hands that heal, steady, sustain and offer themselves continually in deeds of loving service.—Kendrick Strong in All The Master’s Men
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Alienate

​Alienation is a separation between things or persons previously connected.—Stephen D. Lowe & Mary E. Lowe in Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age: Spiritual Growth Through Online Education, 20.
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Calamity

For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing.—William Law in A Serious Call To A Devout & Holy Life
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Behaviorism

Behaviorism presupposes that there is neither God nor soul.—Vishal Mangalwadi in The Book That Made Your World
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After

​What comes After
It's not the play, 
The script you read,
The curtain call,
Who plays the lead. 
It's not the suit,
The boardroom seat,
The country club,
The meet and greet. 
It's not the day,
Where time's your master,
It's living well,
For what comes after. 
It's not the crowd,
With wild applause,
The author's words,
That give us pause.
The heroes standing,
In the breach,
With freedom's prize,
Beyond their reach.
It's not the tears
Or even laughter. 
It's holding on 
To what comes after. 
It’s not the lords
Within the well,
Whose boundless laws
Create our hell.
Or hypocrites 
Within our midst 
Who practice not 
What they insist.
It’s the one who stands
When it really matters,
Who leads us on
To what comes after.
-Jim York (2020)
 
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Blush

Blushing is so socially accepted that we forget to ask the pertinent questions: How do those blood vessels know you’re embarrassed?  How do they pick up on your emotions at that precise moment?—Nick Ortner in The Tapping Solution
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Amygdala

Science has established that the stress response begins in the amygdala.—Nick Ortner in The Tapping Solution
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Bond

Keeping the balance between bonding to people and bonding to goals is fundamental for healthy functioning, high self-esteem, and high performance at work.—George Kohlrieser in Care to Dare

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Culpable

Every general-in-chief who undertakes to execute a plan which he knows to be bad, is culpable.  He should communicated his reasons, insist on a change of plan, and finally resign his commission, rather than become the instrument of his army’s ruin.—Napoléon Bonaparte in Military Maxims
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Catholic

And Catholics, thousands of Catholics everywhere, have the consummate audacity to weep and complain because God does not hear their prayers for peace, when they have neglected not only His will, but the ordinary dictates of natural reason and prudence, and let their children grow up according to the standards of a civilization of hyenas.—Thomas Merton in The Seven Storey Mountain
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