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🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

"Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son."

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

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🇮🇳Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Education

1942–2006

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Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Politics

1813–1843

"The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved."

"Only humans have the ability to know that God exists, yet still deny His existence."

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🇺🇸Omarosa Manigault Newman

"The only law that a Christian should listen to and read is the law of God's Commandments. And it is not right to comply with, implement or observe any other law."

"Faith does not first ask what the bread is made of, but eats it. It does not analyze the components of the living stream, but with joy draws water from the " wells of salvation."

"The leaves of the tree of life will serve for the healing of the nations , which means that there will be in the life beyond people who need a cure for their souls."

"You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops and I am for the President—chase them all over the world, if it takes ten years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord."

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Religion

"I am an organ of the Lord, and sweetly... do I glorify the King, all atremble before Him."

"Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America…"

"Just to confess the Lord with our mouth and say, "I have believed in the Lord today," is not enough for a testimony. We must come out from the world and be separated."

"I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function."

"I have always condemned terrorism, because according to the glorious Koran, if you kill one innocent person, then you have killed the whole of humanity."

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Frederick William Robertson

Literature

1816–1853

"In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him."

"They try to portray us as a pro-Israeli movement, in the sense that we have a higher regard for them than our nation. We are accepting them as a people, as part of the people of the world."

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🇺🇸Billy Graham (wrestler)

Politics

1918–2018

"I am the women's pet, the men's regret. What you see is what you get. And what you don't see is better yet."

"Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force."

"Writings of Bunyan at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library"

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🇬🇧Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Religion

1834–1892

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

"We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh, but, instead, we must be simple, humble and pure."

"I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary."

"Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?"

"Electric Scotland's biography of James Fordyce"

"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "John Duns Scotus"

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🇺🇸David Berg

1920–2002

"By what means can mortal man possibly transcend the bounds of time and peer into the future? By tuning in to God and His wonderful Word, the Bible."

"In the face of those who have no voice, we must, above all, avoid being strong with the weak ."

"Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty."

"A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age."

"Mrs. M., you seem to be very sick." " Yes," said she, "I am dying." "And are you ready to die?" "Sir, God knows I have taken Him at His word, and I am not afraid to die."

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Roger Williams (theologian)

Religion

1603–1683

"Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will."

"Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness."

"Sicut turris defendit castrum sic humilitas cordis defendit castitatem corporis a iaculis fornicationis."

"Semi-Centennial: Some of the Life and Part of the Opinions of Leonard Bacon"

"And my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose, which they had always thought from certain marks on my head and breast."

"There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, "It's a shame that he has to die." And Jesus is saying, "Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!"

"Life is great if properly viewed in any aspect; it is mainly great when viewed in connection with the world to come."

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