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Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

Alister E. McGrath

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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
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We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
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Puzzles lead to logical answers mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.
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A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
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The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world it was now about serving God in the world
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
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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.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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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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Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
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