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Who Needs Theology?: An Invitation to the Study of God

by Stanley J. Grenz

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Matthew McGowan’s Quotes

“I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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“When the Greeks got the gospel, they turned it into a philosophy; when the Romans got it, they turned it into a government; when the Europeans got it, they turned it into a culture; and when the Americans got it, they turned it into a business.”
― Richard Halverson

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