As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
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I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The Aloha spirit is something that is very special and very meaningful to us and our Polynesian culture. Those of you who… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
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For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
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You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
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God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
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I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
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Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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