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Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

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All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

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I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

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I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

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The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it sounds just, but on the other, it illustrates the reason why a prosperity message has and needs its limitations.

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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

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Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

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To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

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Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

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The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

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What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

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The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

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Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

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Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.

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Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

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Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

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Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

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An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

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Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

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Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

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Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

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Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

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In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

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What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

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I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

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As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

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The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

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Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

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All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

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