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D. Elton Trueblood Quotes


A noted 20th century American Quaker author and theologian, former chaplain both to Harvard and Stanford universities. 
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. Trueblood abandoned this prestige to settle in the Quaker hub community of Richmond, Indiana to help spur the growth of Earlham College from a tiny regional, religious school, and build it into a top flight institution of higher learning.

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The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

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Faith is not belief without proof but trust without reservation.

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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.