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"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."
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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."
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"Who gave fire permission to burn?"
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"But if I feel, may I never express? "Never! declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope; she could not rest unless I were altogether crushed, cowed, broken-in, and broken down. According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod and give a truant hour to Imagination - her soft, bright foe, our sweet Help, our divine Hope."
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"...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours."
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"Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn."
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"Do not become more useful than God."
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"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
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"Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil."
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"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."
Family


"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."
Abortion


"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."
Ethics


"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."
Fear


"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right."
Ethics


"One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."
People


"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
Life


"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion."
Science


"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
Philosophy


"We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it."
Politics
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