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A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.


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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.



The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.



Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.



Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.



Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.



We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.



We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.



Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.



The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.



Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.





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and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.

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I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.

I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.



To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.



Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.



I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.



Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.



Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.



Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.





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