"The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message."

-- Charles Colson

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“It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.”

Source : Marissa Meyer (2013). “Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)”, p.142, Penguin UK
“Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.”

Source : Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley, Sir Graham Balfour (1903). “The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters”
“Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.”
“The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.”

Source : Cliff Richard (1999). “Cliff Richard: a celebration : the official story of forty years in show business”, Andre Deutsch Ltd
“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”
“My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.”
“My cage has many rooms.”
“Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.”

Source : Robert William Service, “Reptiles And Roses”

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