Category Archives: Quotations

Walter Cronkite Quotes

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Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor.

I never had the ambition to be something.  I had the ambition to do something.

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchor for the CBS Evening News (1962-1981).  His closing words at the end of each newscast read as “And that’s the way it is.”  The news stories he covered made up a litany of American history’s most significant moments in the 1960s and 1970s.  He was often cited as “the most trusted man in America” during his time as news anchor.

Oswald Chambers Quote

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Routine is God’s way of saving us between our times of inspiration.

From 2 Peter 1:5:  “For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with excellence, and excellence with knowledge.”

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher.  Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons.  Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST.  I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.

Helen Keller Quotes

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American author and lecturer.  Her own journey through blindness and deafness encouraged her to advocate for the rights of others who live with disabilities.  

John Stott Quote

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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

From 1 Corinthians 13:4-6:  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.”

John Stott (1921-2011) was an English preacher and Christian theologian.  During his years in the ministry, he was one of the leaders of the worldwide evangelical movement.

David Jeremiah Quote

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Personal Bible study is the best way to sink your roots deeply into the faith.  You’ll be like a tree planted by rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in season.

From Psalm 1:2-3:  “But their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night.  They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither.  In all that they do, they prosper.”

David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.

Norman Rockwell Quotes

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Norman Rockwell found endless ways to portray American life, just as he is doing in this photograph. (Courtesy of Pinterest)

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was an American artist and illustrator.  His works were published in magazines, advertisements, covers, calendars, and so much more.  He accurately displayed the essence of American life.

Charles Stanley Quote

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If we trust in what the Scriptures reveal about God’s character and ways, we can endure affliction faithfully, whether or not He ever explains why.

From Job 23:9-11:  “If I go forward, He is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive Him; on the left He hides, and I cannot behold Him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see Him.  But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come out like gold.”

Charles Stanley (1932-2023) was an American pastor and Christian writer.  He was dedicated to leading a teaching ministry.

H. G. Wells Quotes

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946) was a British novelist, journalist, and historian.  Many of his published works share a futuristic view, and this has earned him the distinction of being the “father of science fiction.”

W. Phillip Keller Quote

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Nature reclaims its breath from a nearby creek. Photographed at central Ohio’s Chestnut Ridge Metro Park.

As a tree by the waters grows, in spite of drought all around it, so I, by drawing upon the life of Christ, grow into His strength.

From Job 14:7-9:  “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots will not cease.  Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.”

W. Phillip Keller (1920-1997) was born in Africa as the son of missionary parents.  His life’s mission would allow him to become a world citizen as a photographer, agronomist, and Christian author.

William Stafford Quotes

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I embrace emerging experience.  I participate in discovery.  I am a butterfly.  I am not a butterfly collector.  I want the experience of the butterfly.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

William Stafford (1914-1993) was an American poet.