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"...we have spent five thousand years as a race of rational human beings, trying to..." by Ted Koppel
"How can a corporation be socially responsible in business? Initiatives newsletter suggests three areas: 1)..."
"Some hold the view that telling the unvarnished truth is the only right way to..." by Pete Hammond
"Readers will forgive reporters for their mistakes, but they won't forgive us for our arrogance...." by David Aikman
"Forming friendships around hostility toward another human being denies that they were made in God's..." by Pete Hammond
"Never try to judge a person's behavior until you understand the principles that determine his..." by Jeff Comment
"It is a false and damaging activity to form a friendship based on antagonism or..." by Pete Hammond
"At all costs avoid oversimplifying sin and evil. It killed Christ and it foiled God's..." by Pete Hammond
"In a competitive market, compromise - that is, accepting half a loaf - is often..." by Bill Pollard
"I, for one, am quite reluctant to pass judgment on people's sincerity. I do not..." by Dr. Laura L. Nash, Ph.D.
"For four years I worked as a litigation attorney in Beverly Hills....there was something fundamentally..." by Heather King
"In each of us there is an allegiance to a light and a dark potential:..." by Alan Briskin
"The shadow offers us access to the unresolved issues of our past, the dispossessed feelings,..." by Alan Briskin
"The Seven Deadly Sins Are... Truth, if it becomes a weapon against persons. Beauty, if..." by Ashley Cooper
"God, help me respond to sin in me by admitting the truth about myself. Help..." by Pete Hammond
"Savanarola...was a great social deliverer intent on saving his generation from the hedonistic coma of..." by G.K. Chesterton
"(Regarding sins) the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to..." by G.K. Chesterton
"(In creating a mock quiz from critics of the faith, she wrote) What are the..." by Dorothy Sayers
"Christianity has an enormous advantage over every other religion in the world. It is the..." by Dorothy Sayers
"Now, for the Christian.... He is as deeply shocked and grieved as anybody else (over..." by Dorothy Sayers
"The avaricious greed that prompts men to cut down forests for the speedy making of..." by Dorothy Sayers
"It disturbed her that so much more was done to assist the victims of social..." by Dorothy Day
"(In the Civil Rights Montgomery bus integration) Dorothy was elated. At last America was taking..." by Jim Forest
"Wherever grace abounds, usually lawyers do not." by Pete Hammond
"Status gained by negation of someone else is a mentality rooted in your insecurities. This..." by Pete Hammond
"[Overheard in a meeting], Aaron greeted Moses coming off the mountain asking, 'Well, how did..."
"College athletics [for blacks] was no more than an updated version of sharecropping. (You were..." by Christopher Darden
"... our culture is affluent in sex but bankrupt in love.... A prostitute has a..." by John Ashcroft
"It is gruesome to watch modern 'historians' distort and invent facts to project the promiscuity,..." by John Ashcroft
"There is tremendous difference between command and choice. My father resisted the parental urge to..." by John Ashcroft
"A syndicated columnist wrote that Americans 'have more money and less virtue. We have more..." by John Ashcroft
"There are only two times when the poison of arrogance pollutes - when you are..." by John Ashcroft
"It may be definitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because the latter..." by George MacDonald
"The scandal of businesslike priests, of collective wealth, the lack of a sense of responsibility..." by Dorothy Day
"All who are involved in Christian ministry will appreciate another piece of advice [Hammond] gave..." by Warren Nelson
"Flannery O'Connor said, 'The truth shall make you free. And obeying it shall make you..." by Flannery O'Connor
"...a friend of mine calls it an American irony that here in the United States,..." by Max De Pree
"On integration: Some things will always be in paradoxical tension, e.g.: self-acceptance and healthy pride..." by Robert Banks
"Sin gives us the terrible ability to misuse any good thing - possessions, friends, family,..." by Pete Hammond
"Scratch a human, find tragedy and pain. Do you care enough to ask?" by Pete Hammond
"The rabbi of Sasov once gave the last money he had in his pocket to..."
"People who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed."
"In his book Soul Making, Rev. Alan Jones writes, 'We either contemplate or we exploit.'..." by Craig Barnes
"A... biblical ethics are foundationally imitatio [Image of God in each of us] ethics; foundational..." by T. David Gordon
""When you build dignity, you begin to destroy prejudices." (As spoken by Bishop Raya in..." by Elias Chacour
"If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these..." by Gandhi
"Integrity is no guarantee of a ticket to the top, but without integrity the prize..."
"Government should, and does have the right, to define crime. The church should be busy..."
"Even forgiven sins have consequences." by John Leax
"Many wish to see God; few wish to be seen by him." by John Leax
"A tyrant's first victim is his own freedom." by John Leax
"A high incidence of abortion testifies to a culture's lost hope." by John Leax
"A society practicing neither modesty nor restraint has no claim on a right to privacy." by John Leax
"My salvation will be complete only when I cease to resent God's forgiveness of those..." by John Leax
"A lie has speed but truth has endurance." by Edgar Mohn
"A true measure of an individual is how he [she] treats a person who can..." by Ann Landers
"The man preoccupied with his own rights is not only disastrous, but a very unlovely..." by C.S. Lewis
"Suspicion often creates what it suspects." by C. S Lewis
"Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will." by C.S. Lewis
"May God's grace give you necessary humility. Try not to think - much less, to..." by C.S. Lewis
"A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility." by C.S. Lewis
"A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to..." by C.S. Lewis
"Since the physical, emotional and psychological dangers of early intercourse increase as one goes down..." by Patrick F. Bassett
"The computer is a wonderful invention. There are just as many errors, but now they..." by Wendall Trogden
"The existence of evil and suffering in the world is a proof, not that God..." by D.R. Davies
"'What is capital punishment?' asked the teacher. The son of a businessman answered, `It is..."
"A CREDO FOR MORAL LEADERS: Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In..." by John Wesley
"Forgiving is hard to do. Forgiving is always a decision to put up with an..." by Lewis Smedes
"As the highest marginal tax rate plummeted from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1988,..."
"The real message of the insider-trading scandal may be just this: The client no longer..." by Henny Sender
"Greed - for lack of a better word - is good. Greed is right. Greed..." by Gordon Gekko
"Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, It is polite? Vanity asks the..." by Martin Luther King
"Sex with many is full of betrayal and emptiness. Commitment with one brings fulfillment and..." by Pete Hammond
"Even as Jehovah chose to shock Israel into reality through the Egyptian and Babylonian captivities,..." by Pete Hammond
"A chip on the shoulder usually means there's more wood higher up."
"Tact is like a girdle. It helps you organize the awkward truth more attractively."
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." by Alice Walker
"A recent national study of children's moral and spiritual perspectives sponsored by the Girl Scouts..."
"In this electronic age, there's a telephone hotline helping people to confess if they feel..." by Barbara Mary Johnson
"A little hyperbole never hurts. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of..." by Donald Trump
"Character is not made in crisis, it's only displayed there." by Vince Lombardi
"Being a sinner means having the terrible ability to misuse every good thing!" by Pete Hammond
"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
"Humility is like underwear. Everyone should have it, but it shouldn't show."
"Ben Franklin was given to adages such as: "Let thy vices die before thee" "To be humble..." by Ben Franklin
"...Why, a sudden submission to Christian ethics by businessmen would bring about the greatest economic..."
"People become housebuilders through building houses, harp players by playing the harp. We grow to..." by Aristotle
"The first duty of love is to listen." by Paul Tullich
"The lack of hypocrisy is to keep on striving." by Bud Ipema
"Donald Rumsfeld's rules for White House aides included: "Don't speak ill of your predecessors -..." by Donald Rumsfeld
"Never write an advertisement you wouldn’t want your own family to read. You wouldn’t tell..." by David Oglivy
"A liberal education...is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of his..." by Cardinal Newman
"If you study history, it is clear that it is usually the ordinary man who..." by Frederick Philips
"Here and there people flee from public altercation into the sanctuary of private virtuousness. But..." by Dietrich Bonheoffer
"If `dominion’ is misconstrued it can easily be confused with various forms of domination. Domination..." by John C. Haughey
"Now, for the Christian.... He is as deeply shocked and grieved as anybody else (over..." by Dorothy Sayers
"A society in which consumption must be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going..." by Dorothy Sayers
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates..." by John Gardner
"The pre-eminent values within Commodity Form of life are marketability and consumption. These two values..." by John F. Kavanaugh
"Eventually insider trading became an addiction for me. It was just so easy. In seven..." by Dennis Levine
"Asked about his favorite long term investment, money manager Kenneth Heebner named Philip Morris saying,..." by Kenneth Heebner
"I am only a small duck in a big puddle, but I am interested very..." by Harry Truman
"Now the various activities of man’s mind and hands seem to have fallen apart. Religion..." by S.C. Neil & Hans Rudi-Weber
"...Japan reflects more widely held values of delicacy, beauty, and tradition; in America, the values..." by William Dyrness
"...preoccupation with means carries an inherent danger of idolatry: that is, endowing the paraphernalia of..." by William Dyrness
"Mahatma Ghandi once wrote that there are seven sins in the world: wealth without work;..." by Max De Pree
"There are people who regard it as frivilous, and some Christians think it impious, for..." by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"J. C. Penney said: ‘Men who in their relation to their customers and to the..." by Thomas V DiBacco
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging,..." by E.B. White
"A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what..." by C.S. Lewis
"We should not be thermometers, just measuring what already exists, but thermostats working within the..." by William. H. Hudnut III with Judy Keene
"Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for..." by A New York state legislator
"Your greatness is measured by your kindness;
Your education and intellect by your modesty;
Your..." by William J.H. Boetcher
"A Christian life does not consist of selling church raffle tickets to co-workers, prostlytizing the..." by Reverend William Mahedy & Dr. Christopher Carstens
"Christianity’s basic problem is that ‘in the dimensions of the Christian life where Christian can..." by George Barna
"We twentieth-century Christians have chosen the way of compromise. We withdraw our Christian consciousness from..." by Harry Blamires
"Moral dualism, in which one’s private and personal life is expected to be governed by..." by Graham Tucker
"Americans have been somewhat backward in adopting values, hopes, ambitions that have to do with..." by Laurence Shames
"Using both the [Wall Street] Journal and the Bible, at the same time, sure makes..." by John H. Rudy
"I define evil, then, as the exercise of political power—that is, the imposition of one’s..." by M. Scott Peck
"If the firm does not have a moral reference point, it has the potential to..." by Bill Pollard
"Government at all levels can be competent, economical and efficient. Yet I would hasten to..." by Jimmy Carter
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