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our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.

Because if the Will be already inclined, before it exerts its own sovereign power on itself, then its inclination is not wholly owing to itself:

His aim, in all his investigations, was the discovery and the defence of truth.

Prop. I. Heaven is God's house. An house of public worship is an house where God's people meet from time to time to attend on God's ordinances, and that is set apart for that and is called God's house.

Those who are backslidden are much more hardened in their sin than they were before. They are like iron which being once heated and cooled again becomes much harder than before.

His championship of smallpox inoculations for the colonies was an unprecedented public health policy in colonial times.

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

He said he was thinking about retiring from the boxing ring and devoting his life to traveling and "seeking a peaceful, workable solution to the race problem.

Mildenberger was more nuisance than hazard, like a developing nation trying to make the threats of a superpower.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor. Everyone loves a good story; every culture bathes its children in stories. Among the most important stories we know are stories about ourselves, and these "life narratives" are McAdams's third level of personality.

The consequences of a generation unable or disinclined to engage with ideas that make them uncomfortable are dire for society

The authors are right to push back hard against the cultivation of fragility and victimhood, and to defend free speech as essential to the mission of higher education.

universities, which ought to be forums for open debate, are developing a reputation for dogmatism and intolerance.

But anyone who tells you that all societies, in all eras, should be using one particular moral matrix, resting on one particular configuration of moral foundations, is a fundamentalist of one sort or another.

And as reasoning is not the source, whence either disputant derives his tenets; it is in vain to expect, that any logic, which speaks not to the affections, will ever engage him to embrace sounder principles.49

I'll show that religion is (probably) an evolutionary adaptation for binding groups together and helping them to create communities with a shared morality.

Intuition is the best word to describe the dozens or hundreds of rapid, effortless moral judgments and decisions that we all make every day. Only a few of these intuitions come to us embedded in fullblown emotions.

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Creighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff.

I'll buy lunch." "Not Hungry." I laughed. He said, "I can't stand when you do that." "Do what?" "Assume I'm ruled by my digestive system." "God forbid," I said, "Want me to drive? Think T-bone.

Huge blue eyes awned by false lashes that could've been fashioned from tarantula legs.

Pickled by his own press release, fermenting in ruined optimism.