"The tendency of religious people is to use spiritual and ethical observance as a lever to gain power over others and over God, appeasing Him through ritual and good works."
- Tim Keller
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"If joy and triumph be showed when a king's child is born to the world, what joy is sufficient, when God's child is regenerated from heaven. The one is flesh, which is born of flesh: the other is spirit, which is born of Spirit. The one also shall wither like the grass of the earth in short time, the other shall live in heaven beyond all time."
- William Cecil
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"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed. Never throw out anyone."
- Audrey Hepburn
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"Taking the bull by the horns is often a sound course of action..as long as you and the bull agree on when to let go."
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
- Augustine