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​Inspirational Quotations  D-F
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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1/11/2023 0 Comments

Environmental Proxies

Environmental proxies are those unspoken signals that communicate important dimensions of a changing environment.—Dennis O’Neil & Greg Hiebert in Changing Altitude: How To Soar In Your New Leadership Role
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1/11/2023 0 Comments

Discontent

​He who is not contented with what he has will not be contented with what he would like to have.—Socrates 
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6/29/2022 0 Comments

Dismay

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.--Oswald Chambers in My Utmost For His Highest
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8/28/2021 0 Comments

Flourish

​God grant that we may be so filled with His life, may flourish as the cedars of Lebanon, so that He can trust us down in all the dark, difficult places among the souls of our fellow human beings and be able to pour His tremendous health and power through us.--Oswald Chambers in Workmen of God  8
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Degrade/Degradation

Whenever there is the experience of fatigue or weariness or degradation, you may be certain you have done one of two things: either you have disregarded a law of nature, or you have deliberately got out of touch with God . . . There is no such thing as weariness in God’s work.—Oswald Chambers in Not Knowing Where 65,66
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Fight

We do not have the luxury of continuing to fight the last war.—Rod Dreher in The Benedict Option

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.—Sir William Francis Butler

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Eros

Eros that submits to Christ bears fruit in the gift of children, stable families, and communities.—Rod Dreher in The Benedict Option
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Forest

A forest is the triumph of the organization of mutually dependent species.—Alfred North Whitehead, in Science and the Modern World
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Formation

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Spiritual formation, then, is the ongoing process of the triune God transforming the believer’s life and character toward the life and character of Jesus Christ—accomplished by the ministry of the Spirit in the context of biblical community.—Paul Petitt in Foundations of Spiritual Formation, Kregel Publications, 103
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Spiritual formation as seen in the New Testament has four key components. Spiritual formation possesses (1) an agent—the Spirit; (2) a dynamic—growth in the context of community identification; and (3) a goal—holiness in the context of mission. It also requires (4) an open and responsive heart that pursues formation as a key purpose in life.—Paul Petitt in Foundations of Spiritual Formation, Kregel Publications, 103
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Ecology

German zoologist Ernst Haeckel first coined the term ecology in 1866 and defined it as “the science of relations between the organism and the surrounding outer world.—Stephen D. Lowe & Mary E. Lowe in Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age: Spiritual Growth Through Online Education, 12.
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Ecology or ecosystem is the study of the “interdependence of all living things, plant and animal, and their environment which makes life possible.”—Edward J. Ryan in “Ecology: A Study of Interdependence,” The Kansas School Naturalist 11, no. 1 (1964): 3. 
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10/15/2020 0 Comments

Enemy

The enemy is in front of us.  The enemy is behind us. The enemy is to the right and to the left. They can’t get away this time!—General Douglas MacArthur

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9/12/2020 0 Comments

Denunciation

All denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind and the modern skeptic doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it.—G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy
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Fall

​For man by the Fall fell both from his state of innocence and his dominion over creation.  Both of these, however, can even in this life be made good; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences.—Francis Bacon in Novum Organum with Other Parts of the Great Instauration, trans. And eds. Peter Urbach and John Gibson (Chicago: Open Court, 1994, 292-293.
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Equality

Christian civilization—Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant—has maintained that equality does not preclude authority.  A conductor and a musician are equal as human beings, but in an orchestra, the musician is under the conductor’s authority.  Submission to the authority does not make the musician a lesser human being; it makes him an effective musician.—Vishal Mangalwadi in The Book That Made Your World
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Despise

For to despise one for whom Christ dies is to be as contrary to Christ as he that despises anything that Christ has said or done.—William Law in A Serious Call To A Devout & Holy Life
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Dabble

​Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.—Tony Robbins
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Drama

Out in front of us is the drama of men and of nations, seething, struggling, laboring, dying.  Upon this tragic drama in these days our eyes are all set in anxious watchfulness and in prayer.  But within the silences of the souls of men an eternal drama is ever being enacted, in these days as well as in others.  And on the outcome of this inner drama rests, ultimately, the outer pageant of history.  It is the drama of the Hound of Heaven baying relentlessly upon the track of man.—Thomas Kelly in A Testament of Devotion
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Finish

In the Christian life, it’s not how you start that matters.  It’s how you finish.—Steve Farrar in Finishing Strong

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.—Dr. James C. Dobson
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Detached

If you want to know what water is, don’t ask the fish.—Chinese Proverb 
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Flower

Accept the flowers which I send—their sweet breath has a language more eloquent than words.—Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii
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Excess

It is not the thing, but the excess of the thing, that hurts.—Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii
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Dissipation

It is from dissipation that we learn to enjoy solitude, and from solitude dissipation.—Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii
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Decline

If you want to reverse decline, be rigorous about what not to do.—Jim Collins in How The Mighty Fall

Five Stages Of Decline:  Stage 1 Hubris Born of Success; Stage 2 Undisciplined Pursuit of More; Stage 3 Denial of Risk and Peril; Stage 4 Grasping for Salvation; Stage 5 Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death.—Jim Collins in How The Mighty Fall
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Fragrance

A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.—Chinese Proverb
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Epistemology

Epistemology is the theory of how we know, or how we can be sure that what we think we know of the world about us is correct.—Francis Schaeffer in The God Who Is There

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