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D. Elton Trueblood Quotes: It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
         

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.


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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.



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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.



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If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.



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At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.



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Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.



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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.





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