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Eric Metaxas
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" For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless. "
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" Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone. "
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" 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. "
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" We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders. "
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" 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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" Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me. "
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" People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself! "
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" If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle. "
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Universe
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" The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. "
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Absurdity
Logical
" Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born. "
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Born
Complicated
" As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us. "
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" God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall. "
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" Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible. "
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" Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God. "
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Place
Think
God
" If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong. "
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Make
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" 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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America
World
Win
" All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection. "
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Us
" 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. "
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Nose
" Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether. "
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Many
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" Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality. "
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" The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms. "
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World
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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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" Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom. "
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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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Good
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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 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.' "
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Think
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" Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them. "
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" We all have different strengths, different gifts. "
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" Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references. "
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