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title: "5 Understand Christian Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [I don't understand the whole Christian conservativism doesn't make sense to me because I was raised very Christian and its kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-cho/i-don-t-understand-the-whole-christian-conservativism-doesn-t-make/)

[Margaret Cho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-cho/)

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> [Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/many-of-our-attempts-to-understand-christian-faith-have-only/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/only-those-who-have-learned-well-to-be-earnestly-dissatisfied-with/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-hauerwas/conservatives-and-liberals-understand-the-christian-faith-as-a-set-of/)

[Stanley Hauerwas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-hauerwas/)

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> [“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-b-sadler/simply-to-render-oneself-able-to-understand-what-other-christian/)

[Gregory B. Sadler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-b-sadler/)

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