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"I am still looking for an anecdote about Reagan that truly reflects badly on him. When I talk to or read the works of people in politics, entertainment or journalism who didn't admire or agree with him, they will, if they get going, tell you Regan was lazy, or naive or a bore. But they never say he was low or unkind or dishonest or untrustworthy."

"In a time of malice he was not malicious; in a time of lots he did not falsify; in a time of great pressure he didn't bend or break; in a time of do disingenuousness he was clear and candid about where he stood and why."

"Beyond the pokes of medical people, the elderly often entry a famine of touch as if dwelling in the desert of their lives."

Consider the way Jude expresses it: “Although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Celebrating the gospel should be a matter of eagerness; contending for it, a matter of necessity. Regrettably, for some Christians it is the reverse.