A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists.
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.
I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
