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God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
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We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much…
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No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused…
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Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.
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The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
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Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used…
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Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
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The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted…
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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of…
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Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going…
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I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
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One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder…
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if…
— P T Barnum
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of…
— Danny Boyle
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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
— George W. Bush
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to…
— Richard Carmona
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the…
— Francis Bacon
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
— Thomas Adams
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
— Samuel Johnson
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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