A.J. Cronin Quotes

• Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

  A.J. Cronin

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

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• Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

  A.J. Cronin

  Life, Smile, Thank You

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• The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  A.J. Cronin

  Motivational, Success, Achievement

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• We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

  A.J. Cronin

  Yardsticks, Divine, Providence

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• Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

  A.J. Cronin

  God, Heart, Trying

  A. J. Cronin (2013). “Adventures in Two Worlds”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

  A.J. Cronin

  Lost, Begin Again

  A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”

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• Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

  A.J. Cronin

  Temptation, Mind

  A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”

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• Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

  A.J. Cronin

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Hell

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• Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  A.J. Cronin

  Country, War, Enemy

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• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  A.J. Cronin

  Friendship, Circles, Routine

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• You are extraordinarily attractive to women. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it.

  A.J. Cronin

  Attractive, Charm, Realising

  "The Citadel". Book by A.J. Cronin, 1937.

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• [Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

  A.J. Cronin

  Worry, Sorrow, Today

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• Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

  A.J. Cronin

  Believe, Doe, Matter

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• Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

  A.J. Cronin

  Brother, Reason

  A.J. Cronin (1941). “The Keys of the Kingdom”

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