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" Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways. "
Eric Metaxas
Great
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Nation
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" 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. "
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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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" One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy. "
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" I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord. "
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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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" Being an American is something we need to learn and understand. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Us
God
" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children. "
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" You can't fool children. "
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Fool
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" God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall. "
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Garden
" 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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Outside
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Always
" The freedoms we have enjoyed in America - and spread around the world - are incredibly fragile freedoms. "
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Spread
World
Fragile
" The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government. "
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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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" 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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Say
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" Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him. "
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" We all have different strengths, different gifts. "
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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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" No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future! "
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" David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant. "
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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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" 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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