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“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
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“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
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“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
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“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
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“You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.”
Source : Alastair Reynolds (2016). “Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds”, p.189, Hachette UK
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“The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.”
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“Death should take more care with his paperwork.”
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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“The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.”
Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”
Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.
