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Let's not do the minimum requirement. Let's not ask what we can get away with. Let's use our freedom to be extravagant, authentic and spontaneous with our love for one another!
Mark Fairley • Stay Free: Why Society Can't Survive Without God

Calvert readjusted his will so that Wordsworth would get £900 on the event of his death. Calvert serves as the patron saint of a rare sort of social type: the person who can see a gift in others, push that person toward their vocation, and provide practical assistance to make it happen.
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
I don’t believe we modern Christians should always be comfortable with thinking of our God as an absolute monarch. It goes against important values I insist we should still cherish, even if those values have been given to us more by modern liberalism than by traditional religion, values such as equality, freedom, and democracy.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In the early years of his ministry, Billy Graham went through a time when he struggled with doubts about the accuracy and authority of the Bible. One moonlit night he dropped to his knees in tears and told God that, in spite of confusing passages he didn’t understand, from that point on he would completely trust the Bible as the sole authority for
... See moreRick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
He was but seven-and-twenty, an age at which many men are not quite common – at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to do with him, shall draw their chariot.
George Eliot • Middlemarch
When the child of God Loves the Word of God And sees the Son of God, He is changed by the Spirit of God Into the image of God For the glory of God Because he has found the truth of God.
Steve Rogers • What Every Christian Ought to Know
But the pastor can, as a primary element of his vocation, help his people be open to God arriving, even in his immanent frame.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
If it should turn out that he was freed from all danger of disgrace – if he could breathe in perfect liberty – his life should be more consecrated than it had ever been before. He mentally lifted up this vow as if it would urge the result he longed for – he tried to believe in the potency of that prayerful resolution – its potency to determine deat
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