"A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love."

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Robert H. Schuller

#Hope And Faith Quotes #Missions Quotes #Feels Quotes

“On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”
“Every little thing wants to be loved.”
“A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.”
“Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.”
“Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.”
“A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.”
“The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.”
“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press

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