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My family background was deeply Christian. Abbe Pierre

Family Christian Background Family Background Deeply

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. Abbe Pierre

War Time Speak Law Entered Out Prompted Archbishop Paris Could Parliament Priest Still Permitted After Canon Poor Cardinal

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Adam Hamilton

Bible Learning Light Critical Written Read Times Which

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager. Adam Hamilton

God World Our Our Lives Our World Neither Nor Role Landlord Lives

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. Adam Hamilton

Bible Science Preach Every Neither Week Policy Am Nor Textbook Pastor Public Teach Congregation Manufacturer Public Policy

I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?' Adam Hamilton

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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.' Adam Hamilton

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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith. Adam Hamilton

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course. Adam Hamilton

Preach Every Aim Though Course Were Teaching Series Prepared Sermon

Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps. Adam Hamilton

Together Culture Church Society Our Those Has-Been Willing Divided Always Opposite Methodist Been Left Historically Camps Listen Stood Often Center Wars Found United Right Things Bring

You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family. Adam Hamilton

Family You Church Indispensable Your

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt

World Known Proud Am Founder

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. Adam Weishaupt

Fruit Will Morality Perform Illumination

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. Adoniram Judson

Happiness God Religion World Tomorrow Giving Year Living Our Trifle General Cheat Souls How Real How Much Real Happiness Begin Intend Intention Prefer Much Next Next Year Moment Present Present Moment

My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter. Adoniram Judson

Life God Blessed Danger Though Uncertainty Animating Prospects Another Still Very Measure Bright Brighter Hardship

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah. Adoniram Judson

God World Rest Country Before Our Further Evident Consolation Brought Still Leave Where Place Which Us Should Choose Desire

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain. Adoniram Judson

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You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against. Adoniram Judson

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