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If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

Alister E. McGrath

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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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Suffering does not call into question the big picture of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.
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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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Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
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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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The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.
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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 hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
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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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Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
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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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We live on earth our homeland is in heaven.
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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.
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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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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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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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