My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
