"Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity."
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"Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification."
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"We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven."
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"God hopes that we are going to love God back."
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"Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy."
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"Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap."
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"We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept."
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"Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways."
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"Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No."
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"God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God."
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"Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race."
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"People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings."
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"One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up."
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"A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders."
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"Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.""
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"That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination."
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"The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives."
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"There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable."
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"As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers."
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"When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover."
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