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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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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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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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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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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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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
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All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
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The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
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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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Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.
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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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