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" Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world. "

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" You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened. "

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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. "

" 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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" To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos. "

" Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible. "

" God designed humans to live in community. "

" 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.' "

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

" Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun. "

" People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself! "

" The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. "

" The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms. "

" 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. "

" Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship. "

" To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships. "

" 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. "

" David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant. "

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" If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong. "

" 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. "

" Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy. "

" 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. "

" For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection. "

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