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“If this letter system works, it should be reproducible and consistent. If this letter system works, it should be demonstrated in biblical narrativewith consistency. It has. It does. It will. For in...”
“The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?”
“O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...”
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36”
“The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants t...”
“I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.”
“The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
“Either the Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.”
“Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?”
“Once I told Haanala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, Abraham sh...”
“As I look hard at the Bible, however, and at the two thousand years of church history since the Bible's completion, it seems evident that God has accommodated himself over and over to the weakness ...”
“God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son.”
“Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.”
“The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in...”
“Although some of the people at church rejected and even denounced me, this did not particularly hinder me in my search. Rather, the fact that there were church people as weak and foolish as I was m...”
“It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.”
“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.”
“The essential unity of the formal and material principles of the Reformation lies in the fact that to affirm that Christianity was, formally and materially, solus Christus was perceived by the Refo...”
“For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and ...”
“Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, What do you see in this work? The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities a...”
