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" The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve. "

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" Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible? "

" After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. "

" There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. "

" Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. "

" A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school. "

" I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life. "

" When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. "

" I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. "

" A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. "

" What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party. "

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

" So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are. "

" 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. "

" Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. "

" My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. "

" I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions. "

" Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. "

" It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp. "

" Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving. "

" Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God. "

" I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God. "

" It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past. "

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

" I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. "

" I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. "

" Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. "

" So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. "

" Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. "

" There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. "

" 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? "