"The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world."

-- David Jeremiah

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“It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.”
“If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.”
“I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.”
“We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.”
“If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn't it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.”
“The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.”
“The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.”
“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397

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