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Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

Alister E. McGrath

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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.
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We live on earth our homeland is in heaven.
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
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