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" I've got some repenting to do. "

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" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "

" Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian. "

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" I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice. "

" As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. "

" My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians. "

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" If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it. "

" We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do. "

" Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' "

" In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! "

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" Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us. "

" Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? "

" It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. "

" What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others. "

" Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. "

" When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? "

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" If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? "

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" Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. "

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