"The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience."

-- Helen Keller

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“The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.”
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”
“The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse.”
“If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.”
“I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.”
“Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.”

Source : FaceBook post by Brian Houston from Feb 05, 2013
“...the elephant smoked too much.”

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