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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps…
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…
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Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong....…
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
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Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed....And if I am not a good man, I have no just right…
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The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.
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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch,…
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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
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I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
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Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills.…
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
— Robert Burns
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying,…
— John Quincy Adams
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of…
— Tom Stoppard
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Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thy globby bottle of cheap, stinking…
— Anthony Burgess
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