Christianity

"The spiritual life must find its origin in silence."

Gavin Douglas

Literature

1474–1522

"Arguably the best version of Virgil in English poetry."

"It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about."

🇺🇸William Stringfellow

Religion

1928–1985

"The Bible deals with the sanctification of the actual history of nations and of human beings in this world as it is while that history is being lived."

🇳🇱Corrie ten Boom

Literature

1892–1983

"Love is larger than the walls which shut it in."

🇺🇸Warren W. Wiersbe

Literature

1929–2019

"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy."

🇬🇧Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Religion

1834–1892

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

🇺🇸Bill Hybels

Literature

b. 1951

"Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good."

Luke the Evangelist

Religion

"All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need."

🇺🇸John Shelby Spong

Religion

1931–2021

"What the mind cannot believe the heart can finally never adore."

🇬🇧John Keble

Religion

1792–1866

"Keble's works online at Project Canterbury"

Otto Pfleiderer

Religion

1839–1908

"Paulinism : A contribution to the History of Primitive Christian Theology , Vol. 1 · Vol. 2"

🇬🇧John Lennox

Literature

b. 1943

"... energy, light, gravity, and consciousness ... You believe in these things because of their explanatory power as concepts. ... God is not a monolith ... God is Himself a fellowship ..."

Hippolytus of Rome

Religion

"A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath; if he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected."

William Tyndale

Social Activism

1494–1536

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..."