Introduction
1. “Overview,” William Jewett Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth College, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tucker/spiritual/baccalaureate.html.
Chapter 1
1. Lloyd C. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929; Mariner Books edition, 1999).
2. Entire account is found in James A. Michener, The World Is My Home (New York : Random House, 1992), 261-64.
3. Ibid., 262.
4. Ibid., 264.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., 262.
8. Douglas, Magnificent Obsession, 292-95.
9. Ibid., 295-96.
10. “Jesus Led Me All the Way,” Words and Music by John W. Peterson, © 1954, renewed 1982 by John W. Peterson Music Co.
11. John Naisbitt, Megatrends 2000 (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990), 11.
12. Thorton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth (copyright 1942), in Three Plays (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1945), 245.
Chapter 2
1. William H. Houghton, The Living Christ and Other Gospel Messages (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1936).
2. Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1947).
3. Catherine Marshall, A Man Called Peter (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 1951), 33-36.
4. Phil McCallum, “The Derek Redmond Story,” http://philmccallum.com/2007/12/14/the-derek-redmond-story/.
5. Lidie H. Edmunds, “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place,” in Sing to the Lord (Kansas City: Lillenas Publishing Co., 1993), no. 435.
6. David McNally, Even Eagles Need a Push: Learning to Soar in a Changing World (New York: Delacorte Press, 1990), xiv-xv.
Chapter 3
1. “Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” http://www.oremus.org/liturgy/coronation/cor1953b.html.
2. John Wesley, preface to “Sermons,” in The Works of John Wesley (1872; reprint, Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1986), 5:3.
3. Bob Benson, Laughter in the Walls (Nashville: Impact Books, 1969), 30-51.
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (New York: Harper, 1970), 47.
5. “Chariots of Fire (1981),” Database of Movie Dialogs, http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/36891.
6. Quoted in McNally, Even Eagles Need a Push, 13.
7. Charles Wesley, “O for a Heart to Praise My God,” in Sing to the Lord, no. 464.
Chapter 4
1. Transcribed by the author.
2. David Heller, Dear God: Children’s Letters to God (New York: A Perigee Book, 1994), 18, 26, 108, 109, 111, 137, 140.
3. F. M. Lehman, “The Love of God,” see Cyber Hymnal, http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/o/loveofgo.htm.
Chapter 5
1. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 4.5.78-79.
2. Garrison Keillor, News from Lake Wobegon: Winter (St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Public Radio, 1983), audiocassette.
3. Edward Mote, “The Solid Rock,” in Worship in Song (Kansas City: Lillenas Publishing Co., 1972), 92.
Chapter 6
1. Wesley, “Journal,” in The Works of John Wesley, 1:21-22.
2. Ibid., 23.
3. Ibid., 86.
4. Ibid., 91.
5. Ibid., 103.
6. See Wesley, “The Witness of the Spirit,” in The Works of John Wesley, 5:111-23.
7. Wesley, “Journal,” in The Works of John Wesley, 1:103
8. Gale Holland, Jonathan T. Lovitt, and Richard Price, “39 ‘Containers’ at Heaven’s Gate,” USA Today, March 28, 1997.
9. Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno, trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fullbooks.com, http://www.fullbooks.com/Dante-s-Inferno1.html.
10. Fanny J. Crosby, “Blessed Assurance,” in Worship in Song, 437.
Chapter 7
1. Thomas O. Chisholm, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” in Worship in Song, 86.
2. Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1992), 326.
3. Ibid., 327.
4. Bob Benson, See You at the House, ed. Robert Benson (Nashville: Generoux, 1986), 140-41.
5. Chisholm, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” in Worship in Song. 86.
Chapter 8
1. Charles Wesley, “A Charge to Keep I Have,” in Worship in Song, 190.
2. Transcribed by the author from the radio program BreakPoint. The girl, Cassie Bernall, mentioned above, was one of the students killed during the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado. An article by Charles Colson, “A Kaleidoscope of Hate,” based on the radio broadcast can be found at http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/breakpoint-commentaries-archive/entry/13/13148.
3. Teresa of Avila, “Christ Has No Body,” available at Poet Seers, http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/christian/teresa_of_avila/prayers_and_works/christ_has_no_body/document_view/.
4. Wesley, “A Charge to Keep I Have,” in Worship in Song, 190.
5. Teresa of Avila, “Christ Has No Body.”
Chapter 9
1. Henry Ward Beecher, “Success Quotes IV,” Notable Quotes, http://www.notable-quotes.com/s/success_quotes_iv.html.
2. “Be Thou My Vision,” traditional Irish hymn, trans. Mary E. Byrne, in Sing to the Lord, no. 460.
3. Ibid.
Chapter 10
1. A. J. Cronin, quoted as a preface to Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? (New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998), 9.
2. Quoted by Jason Goroncy, in “Pablo Picasso and Romans 5:1–5,” http://cruciality.wordpress.com/category/pablo-picasso/.
3. J. Wilbur Chapman, “Our Great Saviour,” in Worship in Song, 98.
Chapter 11
1. Source unknown.
2. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, s.v. “journey,” http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/collegiate?va=journey&x=0&y=0.
3. Ibid.
4. Civilla D. Martin, “God Will Take Care of You,” in Sing to the Lord, no. 107.
Chapter 12
1. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 185-86.
2. Email message from David Bloom to his wife, Melanie, available on many websites, including http://www.sounddude.com/Sounddude_files/bloom2.htm.
3. Ibid.
4. Frances R. Havergal, “Take My Life, and Let It Be,” in Worship in Song, 281.
Chapter 13
1. Quoted by Carl Schultz, in “A Call to Remember,” a devotional for Alumi Weekend I, Houghton College, July 12, 2003, http://campus.houghton.edu/orgs/rel-phil/schultzweb/A%20CALL%20TO%20REMEMBER.htm.
2. Philip Zaleski, The Best Spiritual Writing 2002 (New York: Harper Collins, 2002), ix.
3. Roger Bannister, The Four-Minute Mile (London: Sutton Publishing, Ltd., 1955), 171-72.
4. John S. B. Monsell, “Fight the Good Fight with All Your Might,” in Hymns for the Family of God (Nashville: Paragon, 1976), no. 613.
Chapter 14
1. The NIV uses the wording “hope in,” but this address emphasizes the KJV wording “wait upon.”
2. David Livingstone, quoted at Inspirational Stories and Anecdotes, http://bizmove.com/inspiration/m9a.htm.
3. Runner’s World (August 1991).
Chapter 15
1. George MacLeod, quoted in James E. Tull, The Atoning Gospel (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1982), 197.
2. Fanny J. Crosby, “Saved by Grace,” in Sing to the Lord, no. 659.
3. Find a Grave, s.v. “Frances J. ‘Fanny’ Crosby,” http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=4173&PIpi=78383.
4. Fanny J. Crosby, “I Am Thine, O Lord,” in Sing to the Lord, no. 473.
Chapter 16
1. J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small (New York: Touchstone Books, 1952).
2. Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1992), 179.
3. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (1991), s.v. “vision.”
4. See Helen Keller, “Helen Keller quotes,” ThinkExist.com, http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_only_thing_worse_than_being_blind_is_having/252210.html.
Chapter 17
1. Warren Christopher, “A Shared Moment of Trust,” in This I Believe, ed. Jay Allison and Dan Gediman (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007), 34
2. Charles Reade, “Charles Reade,” Search Quotes, http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Sow_a_thought%2C_and_you_reap_an_act%3B_Sow_an_act%2C_and_you_reap_a_habit%3B_Sow_a_habit%2C_and_you_reap_a_ch/27817/.
3. Thomas O. Chisholm, “Living for Jesus,” in Worship in Song, 333.
Chapter 18
1. Robert Browning Hamilton, “Along the Road,” in The Best Loved Poems of the American People, selected by Hazel Felleman (New York: Doubleday, 1936), 537.
2. Source unknown.
3. Emily Tolman, “The Ideal,” in To a Summer Cloud and Other Poems (Boston: Sherman, French and Company, 1914), 77.
4. Robert Robinson, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” Cyberhymnal, http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/o/m/e/comethou.htm.
Chapter 19
1. Aristotle, “Aristotle quotes,” Thinkexist.com, http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_roots_of_education_are_bitter-but_the_fruit/220732.html.
2. Richard Rodriguez, “As Obama Takes Office, Another President Says Good-bye,” PBS NewsHour, transcript of broadcast aired January 20, 2009, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june09/presfarewell_01-20.html.
3. Entire story found in Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002), 133-35.
4. Ibid., 134.
5. Ibid., 134-35.
6. Robert Coles, Harvard Diary: Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1990), 33.
7. Adapted from John Wesley, “Wesley Covenant Prayer,” PediaView.com, http://pediaview.com/openpedia/Wesley_Covenant_Prayer.
Chapter 20
1. Brennan Manning, Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 1986), 22-23.
2. Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon (Garden City, N.Y.: International Collectors Library, 1946), 237ff.
3. Earnest W. Shurtleff, “Lead On, O King Eternal,” in Sing to the Lord, no. 641.
4. Minnie Louise Haskins, “God Knows,” also known as “At the Gate of the Year,” Poet Seers, http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/anon/gate/.
5. Fanny J Crosby, “All the Way My Savior Leads Me,” in Sing to the Lord, no. 559.
6. Ibid.
7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Alfred, Lord Tennyson quotes,” ThinkExist.com, http://thinkexist.com/quotation/more_things_are_wrought_by_prayer_than_this_world/12679.html.