Quotes P-R

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Ruin

Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.—Rumi

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Rude

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.—Eric Hoffer

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Row

Great crews may have men or women of exceptional talent or strength; they may have outstanding coxswains or stroke oars or bowmen; but they have no stars. The team effort—the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle, oars, boat and water; the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew in motion becomes—is all that matters. Not the individual, not the self.—Daniel James Brown in The Boys In The Boat

In short, a good coxswain is a quarterback, a cheerleader, and a coach all in one.  He or she is a deep thinker, canny like a fox, inspirational, and in many cases the toughest person in the boat.—Daniel James Brown in The Boys In The Boat

What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing.  And a man couldn’t hamornize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them.  He had to care about his crew.  It wasn’t just the rowing but his crewmates that he had to give himself up to, even if it meant getting his feelings hurt.—Daniel James Brown in The Boys In The Boat

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Routine

. . . Not even the sacred actions I now perform are free from the corrosive dust of this spirit of routine . . . It’s evident that routine is not just a part of my life, not even just the greatest part, but the whole. Every day is “everyday.” Everything I do is routine, because everything can rob me of the one and only thing I really need, which is You, my God.—Karl Rahner

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Root

Our roots help to determine our routes.—Dr. Cornel West

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Roman Catholic

Roman Catholicism, with so much of its traditions, rituals and teachings rooted in paganism, has consistently produced more devout followers of Christ than we Protestants! The deepest Christians in church history have consistently not been Protestant! The Catholics rank second, the Protestants rank third in giving church history its deepest Christians and in illustrating the deeper Christian life and a passionate, torrential love for Jesus Christ.—Gene Edwards

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Role Model

They love all men and are persecuted by all . . . They are dishonored, and yet have their glory in this very dishonor. They are insulted, and just in this they are vindicated. They are abused, and yet they bless. They are assaulted, and yet it is they who show respect. Doing good, they are sentenced like evildoers. When punished with death, they rejoice in the certainty of being awakened to life. –Letter to Diognetus.—Robert Coleman in The Master Plan of Discipleship

Role modeling depends, in part, on observational learning: learning that takes place not by being taught, but merely by watching what someone else is doing.—Steven M. Southwick & Dennis S. Charney in Resilience

I looked around at some of the people who’d had the biggest impact on my life. Aside from family and friends, the men I most trusted all had something in common: they all wore the uniform of the United States of America.—Wes Moore in The Other Wes Moore

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Lee’s moral character was beyond reproach.—Thomas Nettles

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Ritual

When we are in a right relationship to God ritual is an assistance; the place of worship and the atmosphere are both conducive to worship. We are apt to ignore the fact that ritual is essential in a full-orbed religious life, that there is a rectitude in worship only brought about by the right use of ritual.—Oswald Chambers in Shade of His Hand

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Risk

Risk is a natural and unavoidable outgrowth of vision.—George Barna in The Power of Vision

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