"When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world"
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"When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself."
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"The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered."
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"Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next."
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"The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next."
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"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand."
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"The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity."
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"The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church."
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"I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian."
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"Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love."
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"If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word."
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"It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren."
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"In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always been a mystery to me how people jump all over things just to criticize, condemn and judge other people when that is so un-Christian – and they claim to be good Christians! We’re supposed to love one another. We’re supposed to accept and love one another. Whether we do or not, that’s a different story. But that’s what we’re supposed to do."
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"Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done more to protect Christian liberty than any governing document ever devised by man."
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"God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow."
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"The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ."
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"To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed."
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"The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns."
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"True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues."
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"Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted."
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