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Inspirational Quotations  S-U
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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10/24/2021 0 Comments

Triangulation

​Relational triangulation occurs when a believer who has a problem with another believer talks to a third party (a friend, a wife, a coworker) about the problem before talking to the person in question. This is called triangulation because it brings a third party into a matter between two. Triangulation is always sin . . . Triangulation is a sin against the other person, the church, and the third party because it serves to separate, not unite; it breaks oneness and violates a trust.—Jim Van Yperen in Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict, p. 165
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10/24/2021 0 Comments

Transition

Transition . . . encompasses the emotional, relational, financial, and psychological processing of change.  Transitions are internal . . . A transitional plan must take into account all the contingencies, and it must be written down.—Samuel R. Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?

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10/24/2021 0 Comments

Self-disclosure

​Self-disclosure of sin is the first step to transformation.—Jim Van Yperen in Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict, p. 178
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5/21/2021 0 Comments

Sign(s)

​There are signs that civilization is coming to an end.  Violence is everywhere.  Bribery and corruption abound.  Children no longer obey their parents.--Chiseled on an Assyrian tablet—3000 B.C.

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2/17/2021 0 Comments

​Totalitarianism

The best resistance to totalitarianism is simply to drive it out of our own souls, our own  circumstances, our own land, to drive it out of contemporary humankind.—Václave Havel
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2/17/2021 0 Comments

Sacramentality

The contemporary Reformed theologian Hans Boersma identifies the loss of sacramentality as the key reason why the modern church is falling apart.—Rod Dreher in The Benedict Option
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1/29/2021 0 Comments

Thesaurus

I bought a limited-edition Thesaurus. When I opened it the pages were blank.  I have no words to describe how angry I am!--Unknown 
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Use/Useful

He personified the familiar danger to the effective organization of an army, the danger that a competent executive officer will destroy his usefulness by regarding himself as a great strategist.—Douglas S. Freeman in Lee’s Lieutenants (describing LTG Longstreet)

It is doubtful that God can use a man greatly, until He has hurt him deeply.—A.W. Tozer
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Theodicy

​Webster defines theodicy as the “defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil.”—Dr. Ed Murphy in The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare p. 18
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Teenagers

Those who have no children never experience conflict with their teenagers.—Vishal Mangalwadi in The Book That Made Your World
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Science

Science was born after the Church started reading the Bible literally, not allegorically.—Vishal Mangalwadi in The Book That Made Your World
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8/8/2020 0 Comments

Seven

God’s number, on the other hand, is seven.  He created seven days in a week.  There are seven colors in the visible spectrum and seven notes in a musical scale.—Dr. David Jeremiah in Agents of the Apocalypse
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7/28/2020 0 Comments

Unwanted

If a man is not wanted, argument won’t change the situation.—Eric E. Mockler-Ferryman
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Unappreciated

If a man is not wanted, argument won’t change the situation.—Eric E. Mockler-Ferryman
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Try

There is no try, there is only do or not do.—Yoda in Star Wars
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Shoddy

​Pious shoddy is still shoddy.—Elton Trueblood
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Tapping

Tapping targets the root cause of health and wellness challenges by interrupting the body’s stress response quickly and effectively.—Mark Hyman, M.D. quoted in The Tapping Solution
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Tyranny

​There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.—Walt Whitman

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4/19/2020 0 Comments

Together

If you want to go fast go alone.  If you want to go far, travel together.—African Proverb
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3/26/2020 0 Comments

Self

Can God trust you with freedom of choice?  Has your “right to yourself” felt the ax?  That’s what salvation is designed to accomplish.  True repentance and faith ego-proof us.  Our independent self-rule is broken at the cross.—Jan David Hettinga in Follow Me

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2/10/2020 0 Comments

Self-defeat

There is no point cutting off a person’s nose and then giving them a rose to smell.—Ravi Zacharias quoting his mother in The Logic Of God
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Superstition

There is no profession so lucrative as that which practices on the superstition of the multitude.—Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in The Last Days of Pompeii
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Undisciplined

Taking action inconsistent with your core values is undisciplined.  Investing heavily in new arenas where you cannot attain distinctive capability, better than your competitors, is undisciplined.  Launching headlong into activities that do not fit with your economic or resource engine is undisciplined.  Addiction to scale is undisciplined.  To neglect your core business while you leap after exciting new adventures is undisciplined.  To use the organization primarily as a vehicle to increase your own personal success—more wealth, more fame, more power—at the expense of its long-term success is undisciplined.  To compromise your values or lose sight of your core purpose is pursuit of growth and expansion is undisciplined.—Jim Collins in How The Mighty Fall
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See

It is when you see you are dead that you die; it is when you see you are risen that you arise; it is when you see you are holy that you become holy.—Watchman Nee in What shall this man do?

To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.—C.S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man
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Tree

​The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted they have torn me and I bleed! I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.--Lord Byron
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A fruit-bearing tree lives not for itself, but wholly for those to whom its fruit brings refreshment and life.  And so the branch exists only and entirely for the sake of the fruit.--Andrew Murray in Abide In Christ


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