Matthew Parris quotes
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“As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God”
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“Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.”
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“When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.”
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“Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.”
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“Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.”
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“Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.”
-- Matthew ParrisSource : 1994 InTheTimes, 9 Feb.
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“Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.”
-- Matthew ParrisSource : 1997 On the day before the Kensington and Chelsea Conservatives chose Alan Clark as their parliamentary candidate. In the Daily Mail, 26 Jan.
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“All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.”
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Source : "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview With Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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