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Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.
The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure. You can choose not to care.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
Take care of your customers, and you will have a successful business. Don't, and you won't. The airlines need to figure this out - soon.
When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.
If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.
We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Consumers presented with six choices on an item were twice as likely to buy as consumers overwhelmed with 24 varieties of the same item.
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base - those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.
I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.
Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.
I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.
Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.
[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead