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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

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To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

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If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.

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The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

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The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

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The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

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Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

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In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

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The soul is not more important than the body. God made the whole man and the whole man is important.

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Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

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That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

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The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

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Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

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Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

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There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.

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You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

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So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

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All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

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The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

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If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

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In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

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How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

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One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

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Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

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This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

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When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

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Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

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A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

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Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

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