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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Life is more than who’s fighting whom on UFC, what so-and-so tweeted, which celebrities just broke up, and what the latest and greatest food truck is serving up. You were meant to live on a higher level.”
― Levi Lusko, Through the Eyes of a Lion: Facing Impossible Pain, Finding Incredible Power

“Tolerance has come to mean that no one is right and no one is wrong and, indeed, the very act of stating that someone else’s views are immoral or incorrect is now taken to be intolerant (of course, from this same point of view, it is all right to be intolerant of those who hold to objectively true moral or religious positions). Once the existence of knowable truth in religion and ethics is denied, authority (the right to be believed and obeyed) gives way to power (the ability to force compliance), reason gives way to rhetoric, the speech writer is replaced by the makeup man, and spirited but civil debate in the culture wars is replaced by politically correct special-interest groups who have nothing left but political coercion to enforce their views on others.”
― J.P. Moreland

“The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.”
― J.P. Moreland

“I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“A True Wise Man Surrenders Every Thing Freely To God While Alive.
A Foolish Man Surrenders Every Thing Forcefully At The Time Of Death.”
― Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

“The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”
― George Macaulay Trevelyan

“Never in the history of the world have we had easier access to more information - some of it true, some of it false, and much of it partially true. Consequently, never in the history of the world has it been more important to learn how to correctly discern between truth and error.”
― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“A godly leader will be effective only as much as he stays connected to the great and awesome God and follows His lead.”
― Katy Kauffman, Heart Renovation: A Construction Guide to Godly Character