The goal of the Christian life is not to save your soul but to transcend yourself, to vindicate the human struggle of which all of us are a part, to keep hope advancing.
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There is no smaller package in the world that that of a person all wrapped up in himself.William Coffin
The temptation to moralize is strong it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.
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While the Christian faith takes care of the ultimate incongruities of life, humor does nicely with the intermediate ones.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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