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A busybody's work is never done.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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Staffordshire
Andrew Norman Wilson
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
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