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" Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied. "

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" 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? "

" Being an American is something we need to learn and understand. "

" There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted. "

" 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. "

" There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy. "

" Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject. "

" When Trump says America first, it doesn't mean cheering for America only. It means if you want to care for your neighbors, you have to make sure that you are yourself, first, healthy. "

" 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. "

" Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don't think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it's our obligation. "

" Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born. "

" We all have different strengths, different gifts. "

" The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government. "

" The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times. "

" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "

" We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God's world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live. "

" 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. "

" As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us. "

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" Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America. "

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" Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever. "