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Inspirational Quotations  P-R
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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Person

​If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.—Dale Carnegie
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10/24/2021 0 Comments

Restitution

​Principles for Discipline and Restitution 
1. Be Gentle
2. Be Relational
3. Be Beneficial
4. Be Purposeful.—Jim Van Yperen in Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict, pp. 247-249
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8/7/2021 0 Comments

Proportion

God will bless us in proportion to our faithfulness in prayer.  The more we pray—expressing love and trust—the more He blesses.—Dee Duke in Prayer Quest  ​

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1/5/2021 0 Comments

Pilgrimage

​A pilgrimage is "a transformative journey to a sacred center full of hardships, darkness, and peril." .—Andrew Seidel in Foundations of Spiritual Formation, p. 179
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9/12/2020 0 Comments

Revolutionist

In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is forever engaged in undermining his own mines.  In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men.  Therefore the modern man in revolt become practically useless for all purposes of revolt.  By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.—G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy
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Peculiar

​It has been my observation that most generals are generally unaware of their most peculiar peculiarities.—MG Orlando Ward
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Quartermaster

​The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.—Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
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Rules of Engagement

Rules of engagement: We engage in respectful, collaborative, timely, and complete dialogue.  We clearly and directly convey ideas and share our points of view, while maintaining openness to different perspectives.  We listen to understand and respectfully question to achieve clarity, in both message and mutual expectations.  We openly discuss critical issues and deliver difficult messages with care.  We commit to not leaving important things unsaid, and we avoid saying them to someone other than the person who should hear them.—Dr. Henry Cloud in The Power Of The Other
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Panic Attack

A panic attack is an unexpected overwhelming sense of anxiety that isn’t specifically connected to any object or situations.—Phil Collier in A Ministry Leader’s Handbook
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Reckless

A chief contributing factor to recklessness comes from what military historians have long referred to as “the disease of victory.”—Jocko Willink and Leif Babin in The Dichotomy Of Leadership
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Private Eye

Private Eye—Allan Pinkerton founded the first American private detective agency; in advertisements, the company’s motto, “We Never Sleep,” was inscribed under a large, unblinking, Masonic-like eye, which gave rise to the term “private eye.”—David Grann in Killers of the Flower Moon
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12/20/2019 0 Comments

Positivism

Positivism is a theory of knowledge which assumes that we know facts and objects with total objectivity.  Modern “scientism” is built upon it . . . Within positivism as a total structure there is no way of saying with certainty that anything exists . . . Not only does the positivist not know with certainty that anything is there, but even if it is there he can have no reason to think he knows anything truly, nor even anywhere near truly.  There is no reason within the system to be sure that there is a correlation between the observer—that is, the subject—and the thing—that is, the object.—Francis Schaeffer in He Is There And He Is Not Silent
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Quiet Time

“Abide I Christ!” Let no one think that he can do this if he has not daily his quite time, his seasons of meditation and waiting on God.—Andrew Murray in Abide In Christ
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Quiet Time

“Abide I Christ!” Let no one think that he can do this if he has not daily his quite time, his seasons of meditation and waiting on God.—Andrew Murray in Abide In Christ
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12/13/2019 0 Comments

Plague

No greater plague can befall a man, than power without grace.—William Gurnall in The Christian in Complete Armour
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Planning Fallacy

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Play

 . . . play has the power to significantly improve everything from personal health to relationships to educations to organizations’ ability to innovate . . . play leads to brain plasticity, adaptability, and creativity . . . Nothing fires up the brain like play.—Stuart Brown in Play is More Than Just Fun TedTalk

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8/1/2019 0 Comments

Restlessness

​            This cruel self, O how it strives
            And works within my breast,
            To come between Thee and my soul.
            And keep me back from rest.—Eliza Hamilton
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Rut

A rut is a grave with both ends kicked out.—Joseph Aldrich in Gentle Persuasion
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Rural

It is the illusion of hard-worked townsmen that peace lives in the country: fret and rush and sin invade rural as well as urban hearts.  It does not matter whether you live in a town or in a hamlet.  It matters only whether or not you live in God.—W.E. Sangster in Daily Readings
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6/15/2019 0 Comments

Run

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.  Every morning a lion wakes up.  It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.  It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.—Herb Caen

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The 4.9 million Kalenjin people represent about 12 percent of Kenya’s population, but more than three quarters of the country’s top runners.—David Esptein in the Sports Gene

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Ruminate

This single-minded fixation on our fears, shortcomings, and insecurities has a name: it’s called rumination, and it’s introspection’s evil twin.—Tasha Eurich in Insight
            
​By the way, most researchers believe that rumination is different from worry; whereas rumination typically focuses on past or present events, worry focuses on our fears about the future.—Tasha Eurich in Insight
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Ruling

Ruling is where glory to God finds its ultimate expression.  Ruling done God’s way is glory for Him because it expresses His attributes and the purpose for which He created us.—Curtis H. Tucker in Majestic Destiny
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Rule

Nothing gives a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of real charity and faith.—C.S. Lewis

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Ruler

The people are never exonerated for having bad rulers; the reason they have bad rulers is that they are bad people.  Those who rule the people do not autocratically crush them, the people are their inspirers; they are the rulers the people deserve.—Oswald Chambers in Notes on Isaiah
            
​In the Incarnate God proves Himself worthy in the sphere in which we live, and this is the sphere of the revelation of the self-giving of God.—Oswald Chambers in Baffled to Fight Better 
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