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"Television tricks us into carelessly thinking that every human problem can be solved in 30-60..." by Pete Hammond
"First impressions are exactly that - quick, on the surface and in need of long..." by Pete Hammond
"This kind of Christianity is an other worldly kingdom, a private inwardly limited spirit, a..." by Orlando Costas
"The American middle class live lives encumbered by ever increasing 'earth weights'. Things move from..." by Pete Hammond
"We function as if Christians were bionic creatures, wired to operate independently of each other..." by Pete Hammond
"Unworldliness based on knowledge of the world is the finest thing on earth; but unworldliness..." by William R. Inge
"If I love my neighbor as myself, I regale myself with his prosperity, even as..." by Robert Law
"Initiatives is skeptical about the acclaimed trend toward voluntary simplicity, sustain ability, even personal downsizing......"
"Comparasonitus is a disease of the human spirit that can destroy your self view. It..." by Pete Hammond
"Our tendency to try and live up to other's expectations or trying to always figuring..." by Pete Hammond
"I note with interest that in the year of InterVarsity's incorporation there were several new..."
"Why do we work so hard to live up to the expectations of others in..." by Pete Hammond
"Why do American Christians cherish painlessness & pleasure and feel that difficulty & weariness are..." by Pete Hammond
"I came to believe that genuine change is never a function of dominance, or even..." by Alan Briskin
"Reality deals with tough issues of struggle, power, or loss. It asks something of us,..." by Peter Homans
"This has been an age in which we have humanized God and deified man, and..." by Billy Graham
"The modern man is more like a traveler who has forgotten the name of his..." by G.K. Chesterton
"The coming Peril was the intellectual, educational, psychological, artistic overproduction which, equally with economic overproduction,..." by G.K. Chesterton
"...what I wish to attest, merely as a witness to the fact, is that the..." by G.K. Chesterton
"(Regarding sins) the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to..." by G.K. Chesterton
"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look..." by Dorothy Sayers
"A society in which consumption must be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going..." by Dorothy Sayers
"In an organizationally driven environment, what is dominates while what needs to be suffers." by Pete Hammond
"A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production..." by Dorothy L. Sayers
"Somewhere along the way, most of us pick up bad habits of extracting from the..." by Eugene Peterson
"What do these stories [Biblical lives] tell us about living this human life well, living..." by Eugene Peterson
"God is first presented to us in our Scriptures as a worker, a maker.... Work..." by Eugene Peterson
"'Everything that can be invented has been invented.' That comment was made by Charles Duell,..." by Diane Booher
"...a friend of mine calls it an American irony that here in the United States,..." by Max De Pree
"Work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like..." by Fr. Bob Heidenreich
"Does life feel like a wonderful gift to you for celebration, discovery and sharing -..." by Pete Hammond
"His family had been leaders in community and church for three generations. He was currently..." by Pete Hammond
"When it comes to delivering bad news, style counts. So does speed. Like dead fish,..." by Robert Bies
"Hell is the only totally just society." by John Leax
"A society practicing neither modesty nor restraint has no claim on a right to privacy." by John Leax
"The success of a consumer culture depends on people loving money more than life." by John Leax
"More people spend time making good money than making good lives; bless them, they get..." by John Leax
"Frogs croak day and night, yet people loath them. But when the cock crows only..." by Meng-Tzu
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came..." by Mrs. E. O'Brien
"A friend is someone who goes around saying nice things behind your back." by Herm Albright
"William James, author in psychology and religion said: "To most people religion was either an..." by William James
"When are we going to notice that seldom will missionary recruits from rural and exurbia..." by Pete Hammond
"Even as Jehovah chose to shock Israel into reality through the Egyptian and Babylonian captivities,..." by Pete Hammond
"Without the high hope of adventure, Religion degenerates into a mere appendage of a comfortable..." by Alfred North Whitehead
"Most middle-class Americans tend to: - Worship their work; - Work at their play; and - Play at..." by Gordon Dahl
"It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly interested in religion." by William Temple
"There's a militancy about self indulgence now, a strong sense of entitlement....(In a consumer culture..." by Faith Popcorn
"Wisdom does not come from suffering, but from suffering reflected on, accepted, assimilated. If one..." by William J. O'Malley
"When life is generally privatized, society at large is increasingly vulnerable to a politics based..." by Wm. F. May
"In the 1950s...spending more, relaxing more, even wasting more - these, in their way, were..." by Laurence Shames
"Americans spend 74 hours a week eating, sleeping and grooming."
"The average wife still earns less than $l4,000 a year, while the average husband earns..."
"In l987 there were l38 million privately owned cars on the road - more than..."
"American women pay the bills....6l% of women with checking accounts say they have the primary..."
"Who will be asking you for a job in the l990's? On average, 5l out..."
""The concentration on self is a natural result of the passionate need to escape the..." by Philip Lee
"The whole country has a deep stake in the character of its merchants. It is..." by Rev. H. A. Boardman
"...Japan reflects more widely held values of delicacy, beauty, and tradition; in America, the values..." by William Dyrness
"The question, Should I connect faith and life? Is almost as absurd as, Should the..." by Nelvin Vos
"In our society marketability is king, and the unspoken question is, ‘Will it sell?’.... What..." by Graham Tucker
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