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David Elton Trueblood (December 12, 1900 – December 20, 1994), who was usually known as "Elton Trueblood" or "D. Elton Trueblood", was a noted 20th-century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities.

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The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Changed, Point, Religion, Responsible, Ultimate

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.

Christian, Developed, Devotion, Intellectual, Three

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Christianity, Hearing, Shocked, World

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

Difference, Future, Past, Reported, Thoughtful

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

Give, Meet, Men, Noble Man, People

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.

Average, Church, Member, Men, Short, Take

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Art, Engineering, Manipulative, Predictive, Science

This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more radical than that. It means that God is like Jesus.

Christ, Christian, Jesus, Mean, Simply

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Discovering, Garden, Kindness, Life, Men, Under

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

Emotion, Feelings, Glory, Love, Love Is, Religion

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing. " We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.

Accordingly, Blessing, Grace, Habit, Live, Practice

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

Belief, Believe, Faith, Reservation, Trust

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

Democracy, Fact, Facts, Men, Possible, Sinners

Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

Challenges, Children, Entrance, Fellowship, Life, Says