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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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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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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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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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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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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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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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We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.
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The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
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At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
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To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
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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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We live on earth our homeland is in heaven.
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