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"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."

"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."

"We cannot compare our position to the people in this world."

"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."

"How you see the world may not be how others view it."

"Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God."

"To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent."

"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."

"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."
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"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."

"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."

"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."

"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."

"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."

"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."

"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."

"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."
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