Failed experiments in ecumenism and social politics suggest that unity is not to be found in mass movements of like-minded people sharing common perspectives and policies. ... Experience suggests that unity embraces the multitude of our differences, that community is often far from cozy, and that conversion does not mean changing others to our point of view but perhaps just the opposite -- weaning each and every person and institution from the arrogant exclusivism that prevents genuine conversation. ... God comes to us, to rescue us not only from our enemies but also from our friends, not only from strangers but also from familiars, that we might see beyond these discriminating distinctions to a new way of relating.
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Related We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Our intention is to continue to grow and lead the market not only from a perception point of view bu... ANDREW SOTIROPOULOS A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that... MICHAEL ENZI Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity. JEFFREY FRY Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from. STEVEN MAGEE Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persu... SAMUEL JOHNSON The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and c... HOWARD CROSBY The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and c... HOWARD CROSBY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD We all have our family issues from time to time. AJA NAOMI KING The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER We need to see a point of view that comes from South America, not from Europe or the United States. ... ARAM AHARONIAN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can ex... AMISH TRIPATHI Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great. NELSON RIOS It helps us get our name out [to] people that might have not heard of us before. And it is also very... AMY WRIGHT It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of other... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of other... J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come fr... VICTOR KOO You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love,... SAINT AUGUSTINE Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherw... ARTHUR GOLDEN It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos... MAX WEBER I don't like to put players in categories but it is not our top-10 players, it is our bottom 10 that... BARRY HALL Often, we only dream of something but do not fulfill our purpose and that is because we do not know ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacen... JOSEPH CAMPBELL From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling,... ANDY ABBOUD We fear that many children are among the dead and injured. Our rescue workers are expecting not just... PETER VOLK Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had el... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the cease... RABINDRANATH TAGORE TCEQ is interested not only in characterizing the ozone above Houston, but also in finding out where... GARY MORRIS Thank God, our Christian chance is not permanently gone from us [in world affiars]. Ecclesiastics se... BERNARD IDDINGS BELL You have to believe in hope, not only from an acting point of view but also from an audience perspec... DOMINIC PURCELL The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE From our point of view and from the market's point of view, I think $2.10 is not sufficient in order... GRANT WILLIAMSON From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if w... SHARON SALZBERG Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN What is happening is absolutely unacceptable, not only from the point of view of (Sharon's) action, ... LAMBERTO DINI Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it close... ALVIN TOFFLER Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had el... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Tennessee deserves a U.S. senator who understands that our strength as a nation comes not from havin... ED BRYANT When we are in human consciousness, we identify with the body – mind. We believe we are one and th... HOWARD MANN We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARYANNE WILLIAMSON It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h... SAINT BASIL We must move from denigration to integration if we are to achieve a peaceful world. DAVID FRISKO TEACHER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that whi... JAMES C. DOBSON Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also... FRANÇOIS FÉNELON Kindness is a lamp that we should always kindle in our heart. The warmth of it not only make us happ... AKSHAY VASU Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and ... HENRY W. KENDALL There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by enc... KILROY J. OLDSTER From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact,... BILL FRIST It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from th... HENRY MILLER We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is... PAUL VALERY We are going to expect big things defensively from Yeager in goal and Novack at sweeper. That?s not ... RICH MILLER it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often th... MAX WEBER That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to polici... BAINBRIDGE COLBY I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effectiv... CESAR MILLAN Respect comes not from respecting to one another, but from knowing our differences. TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM One should not only abstain from 'sinful-deeds' but also from 'sinful- speech' and 'sinful-thought'.... ATHARVA VEDA Our mission is to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five... BOB IANNUCCI Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps... WENDELL BERRY The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as pr... HERMAN BAVINCK The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&... MARINA ABRAMOVIC We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver... BLAISE PASCAL I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a ... TAMMY DUCKWORTH The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us t... OSWALD CHAMBERS Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, ... TARA BRACH I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship... RICHARD J. FOSTER These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another p... CHRISTINA ENGELA Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every pl... BIBLE All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, nece... DEB CALETTI Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the... CHARLES HODGE One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE What this and other studies like it are showing is that the protection we get from proper diet or su... MARET TRABER In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has p... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us. ANTHONY T. HINCKS The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w... D. H. LAWRENCE The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w... D.H. LAWRENCE True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu... FRANçOIS FéNELON Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences ... HAILE SELASSIE Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, b... ADAM GRANT
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