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" All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection. "
Eric Metaxas
Kind
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Us
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" Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject. "
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" No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future! "
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" Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us. "
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" Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions. "
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" I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed to do it. But my editor persisted, and eventually I thought, 'He's right. I should write this book.' "
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" As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us. "
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" Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take. "
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" I came to the conclusion over time that Trump is not the person I feared he was in the beginning when I was against him. "
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" Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations. "
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" The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? "
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" Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives. "
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Anything
" Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink. "
Eric Metaxas
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Back
Nose
" Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong. "
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Learn
Here
Wrong
" America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it? "
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" Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world. "
Eric Metaxas
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" As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places. "
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New
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" Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.' "
Eric Metaxas
Tomorrow
Women
God
" Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free. "
Eric Metaxas
Free
You
Religion
" I guess I'm concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully stand up and say, 'No thanks.' "
Eric Metaxas
People
Think
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" Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets. "
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America
" Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible. "
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" I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly. "
Eric Metaxas
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Off
Think
" Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being? "
Eric Metaxas
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Intelligence
" God designed humans to live in community. "
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Community
God
" There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted. "
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World
Unique
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" No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one. "
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Political
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" To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country. "
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Debate
Down
Harm
" If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea. "
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Blood
Say
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" I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television. "
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" When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others. "
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