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“Knowing that if God is outside time and I am inside time, that puts some severe limitations on my ability to crack all the codes. The more I’ve studied, the more I go, ‘Yes, God is sovereign, and he does ask us to pray … and he does change his mind.’ How all that will work is in some aspects a mystery.”

Matt Chandler

Pastor of Village Church in Highland Village, contemplating the theological implications of his malignant brain tumor (Associated Press/Yahoo News)

 

“Because of their common belief in Jesus Christ, liberals and conservatives were able to sit in the same pew. If we recognize a common allegiance to Jesus Christ, we can live with differences that threaten to rip society apart. One of the things I lament is we don't have the wide-tent churches we used to have.”

Michael Kinnamon

National Council of Churches general secretary (RNS)

 

“Every day, through the newspapers, television, radio, evil is reported, repeated, amplified, making us used to horrible things, making us become insensitive, and, in some way poisoning us.”


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Pope Benedict XVI

(Associated Press/RNS)

 


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