“This is God’s curse on slavery!—a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!—a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil.
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“our nation’s challenges do not stem from the church’s inability to convince unbelievers to behave like believers. Our challenges stem from the church’s inability to inspire believers to behave like believers.”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“Tim Keller writes, “When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world.”13”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“Five years from now, our “everybody needs to know” opinions will be all but irrelevant and forgotten. But the damage to the body will be done. And you will have contributed.”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
“Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.”
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
― Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church
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