“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.”
― God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics
― God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.”
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“This idea that it’s intolerant to object to anyone else’s position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else’s point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.”
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“Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.”
― The Good Life
― The Good Life
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