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jesus religion different
Richard Dawkins Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.
jesus drama reality
Richard Dawkins In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.
jesus ascension resurrection
Richard Dawkins Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
jesus blessed saint
Richard Baxter If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
jesus thinking needs
Willie Aames I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.
jesus fruit christ
William S. Burroughs Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
jesus important-events stories
William Lyon Phelps In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
jesus mean want
Will Ferrell I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard
prayer soul devotion
William Wilberforce The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
prayer our-prayers
Richard J. Needham God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
prayer people praying
Richard Baxter Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
prayer creatures breaths
Richard Baxter Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
prayer father race
Tryon Edwards Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
prayer past simple
Truman Capote all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
prayer realization killers
Woody Harrelson A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.
prayer blessing earth
William McKinley Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth
prayer simple giving
William James We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.
language languages
Ronald Schmelzer Having two languages is better than having 500,
language likely might policy rather saying small
Dean Maki I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.
language i-can
Richelle Mead I can understand bitchiness in any language.
language scholarship fury
William Zinsser Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
language speak dare
William Whewell Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
language problem speak
Samuel P. Huntington Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.
language difficult
Samuel P. Huntington Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.
language autonomy
Samuel P. Huntington The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.
language prose processors
Richard M. Nixon The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.