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Inspirational Quotations  V-Z
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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Woe

Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, Who watch in order to devise wickedness; Therefore shall fear come upon you And there shall be none to help you.--The Book of Enoch 100:8

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Wilderness

The Lord has indeed showed Himself a prayer-hearing God; He has given His people a praying spirit and a lively faith, and then He has answered their prayers far beyond their highest expectations.  This wilderness and solitary place has been made glad, this dreary desert now rejoices and blossoms like the rose; yea, it blossoms abundantly, and rejoices even with joy and singing.--Reverend James McGready quoted by William Speer in The Great Revival of 1800 ​

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Worms

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.—Winston Churchill
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Validate/Validation

People who use rescuers for validation seldom look at themselves and change.—Dr. Henry Cloud in The Power Of The Other
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Yes

Every yes is pregnant with a no.  We can’t say yes to something without saying no to something else.—Samuel R. Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?

Ban “Yes, but!”  “Yes, but” is another way of sahing, “My idea is better than your idea and I many not even have my idea yet.” That’s why “yes, but . . . “ is a subtle sign of discounting and disrespect . . . Instead, encourage people to say either: “No, I disagree.  Here’s why . . .” or “Yes, I see your point and I think . . .”—George Kohrieser in Care to Dare
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Writer

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.—Victor Hugo
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Vague

A vague when is the same as not having a when at all.—Samuel Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?
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Yes

Someone once described “burnout” as something that happens “when you stop doing what you love to do to engage in the activities that support doing what you love.”—Samuel R. Chand in What’s Shaking Your Ladder?
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Zeal

. . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.—Alexander Hamilton

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Young

You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good, and great; receptive to the messages of other men and women, of nature, and of God.  If one day you should become bitter. Pessimistic, and gnawed by despair, may God have mercy on your old man’s soul.—General Douglas MacArthur

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Yield

When a Christian does not yield completely to the leading of the Spirit—and such a surrender is certainly the will of God and the work of His grace—he lives, without knowing it, under the power of “the flesh.”--Andrew Murray in The Believer’s Prayer Life

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Wrong

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.—Thomas Paine
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Write

A drop of ink may make a million think.—George Gordon Byron
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The only book that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by the inward pressure.—A.W. Tozer in God’s Pursuit of Man
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Wretch

I was wretched, and every soul is wretched that is bound in affection of mortal things: it is tormented to lose them, and in their loss becomes aware of the wretchedness which in reality it had even before it lost them.—St. Augustine in Augustine Confessions
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Wrath

If we hate the wrath of God, it is because we hate God Himself.—RC Sproul in The Holiness of God
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Wound

Utter not a word by which anyone could be wounded.—Hindu Proverb

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Worth

Moral worth, then, depends not on the final purpose of a course of action but on the “maxim” or ethical principle we’ve used to determine what to do. —Rushworth M. Kidder in How Good People Make Tough Choices
            
​If there is nothing worth dying for—in this sense—there is nothing worth living for . . . —Obituary of John Alexander Hottell III
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Worship

If worship does not change us, it has not been worship.  To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change.  Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter His gracious light.--Richard J. Foster in Celebration of Discipline

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Worry

Worries have faded away like ugly clouds and my soul rests in the sunshine of perpetual peace.  I can lie down anywhere in this universe bathed around by my own Father’s Spirit.--Brother Lawrence & Frank Laubach in Practicing His Presence

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Worldview

A person’s worldview can be understood as the lens through which he/she views the grand stage of human existence. It is an individual’s personal life philosophy used to make meaning out of experiences and to provide direction and purpose in life. This complex cognitive framework determines what one attends to, how one interprests information and events, and knowledge and experience one seeks out, and how one behaves. Not static, but dynamic, a person’s worldview actually influences every aspect of his/her current life and future goals. Thus, a persons’ worldview is the foundation upon which the development of the human spirit rests.
      This cognitive framework contains at any point in time an individual’s collection of knowledge and assumptions about how the world operates; truths about the world based on learning and experiences; a system for determining truth and meaning; values and beliefs that one should live by; a vision of a life rendered worth living by making a meaningful contribution; reflections on one’s mortality; and beliefs about what comes after death.  Individuals continuously refine and develop their worldviews through the acquisition of new knowledge, reflection on their own and others’ experiences, introspection concerning their values, beliefs, and meaning-making systems, and discussing with others topics about their human essence.—Patrick J. Sweeney, Sean T. Hannah and Don M. Snider “The Domain of the Human Spirit in The Warrior’s Character

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World

Oh that God would open our eyes to see clearly what the world is!  Not only evil things, but all those things that draw us ever so gently away from God, are units of that system that is antagonistic to Him.--Watchman Nee  in Love Not the World

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Works

And those good works, in which you have been so ready to trust, will not more vindicate you in his awful presence, than a man’s kindness to his poor neighbours would be allowed as a plea in arrest of judgment, when he stood convicted of high treason against his prince.—P. Doddridge in Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul
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There is no passage of Scripture that claims works can prove salvation.—Dr. Charles Bing in Simply by Grace: An Introduction to God’s Life-Changing Gift
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Worker

Workers who produce steadily over a long period of time tend to be most successful in the long run.—Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney in Willpower
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Work

God does not regard the greatness of the work but the love with which it is performed.--Brother Lawrence & Frank Laubach in Practicing His Presence

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Word

In a more exhaustive study, a psychologist analyzed 558 emotion words—every one that he could find in the English language—and found that 62 percent of them were negative versus 38 percent positive.—Chip Heath & Dan Heath in Switch

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