Rob Bell

Sex. God. They’re connected. And they can’t be separated. Where the one is, you will always find the other. (Rob Bell, Sex God, p. 15)

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James Arthur Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. (James Arthur Baldwin, American, Essayist, and Novelist, 1924-1987)

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George MacDonald

Jesus didn’t die in a Cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town garbage heap at a cross roads so cosmopolitan that they had to write his name in Hebrew and in Greek. (George MacDonald, late 19th c. writer and poet)

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C. Jeff Woods

The church has sought to guide the spiritual lives of its members in very practical, reasonable ways. That sounds like a compliment. It’s not. Contrary to Western thought, spirituality is anything but reasonable and practical. (C. Jeff Woods, Congregational Megatrends, 1996)

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John Calvin

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men; neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief (John Calvin, mid-16th century Swiss theologian and pastor).

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Jay Howard and John Streck

In focusing on individual belief, evangelicals have necessarily focused on individuals…poverty, hunger, abortion, drug abuse, and other such issues are thus approached as personal failings rather than social problems. Systemic elements simply aren’t included in the equation. (Jay Howard and John Streck from Apostles of Rock: The Splintered World of Contemporary Christian Music)

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Barack Obama

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question. (Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential hopeful)

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