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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Zechariah 7:9-10, James 1:27, Romans 12:18-19, Matthew 22:37-39, Ephesians 4:15, Isaiah 1:17, Micah 6:8
    What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice.

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    Christian Smith
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    Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 2:14-15, Matthew 22:37-39, Isaiah 1:17, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 119:9-11, Micah 6:8
    “Moral”…is an orientation toward understandings about what is right and wrong, just and unjust, that are not established by our own actual desires or preferences but instead are believed to exist apar...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Isaiah 1:17, Matthew 22:21, Amos 5:24, Zechariah 7:9, Romans 13:3-4, Micah 6:8, Proverbs 21:3
    Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Psalm 82:3-4, Romans 13:1-4, Matthew 22:39, Zechariah 7:9-10, Amos 5:24, Proverbs 31:8-9, Isaiah 1:17
    It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 1:21-23, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 1:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 22:37-40, Colossians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-21
    [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

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    Galileo Galilei
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    Colossians 2:3, 2 Timothy 2:15, Matthew 22:37, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Proverbs 18:15, Romans 12:2, Isaiah 1:18
    I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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    Os Guinness
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    Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 1 Kings 11:1-11, Hosea 4:1-2, 6, Matthew 22:37-40, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Psalm 33:12
    A people can be judged as better or worse according to what they love, and their nation can be assessed as healthy or unhealthy according to the condition of what they love.

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    John Stott
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    Hebrews 13:16, 1 Peter 4:10, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:14, 1 John 4:20, Matthew 22:37-40
    Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

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    John Newton
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    Matthew 22:37-39, James 4:10, 1 John 4:7-8, Ephesians 4:2, Philippians 2:3-4, Colossians 3:12-14
    I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

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    Jonathan Swift
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    Romans 12:9-10, Luke 19:1-10, John 4:1-26, Galatians 5:14, Matthew 22:37-40, 1 John 4:20-21, John 13:34-35
    We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to makes us love one another.

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    Fred Rogers
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    Acts 17:10-12, Mark 10:13-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Luke 10:25-37, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:8
    Love is at the root of everything—all learning, all parenting, all relationships—love or the lack of it. And what we hear or see on the screen is part of who we become.

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    David Whyte
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    Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Joshua 19:, 1 Kings 19:4-8, Matthew 22:37, Psalm 127:1-2
    The antidote to exhaustion is not rest but wholeheartedness.

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    1 Corinthians 13:1-3, John 15:12-13, 1 John 4:19, Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 19:16-30
    To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

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    Patrick Schreiner
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    Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 5:13-16, Genesis 1:27, Luke 10:25-37, 1 Timothy 2:1-2
    Christian politics concerns how we integrate our confession that Jesus is Lord with our call to love our neighbors.

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    Galatians 6:2, Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 22:37-40, Ephesians 4:15-16, 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, Genesis 12:3
    From its very beginning the Bible sees human life in terms of relationships...The Bible does not speak about "humanity" but about "all the families of the earth" or "all the n...

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    John Wesley
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    2 Timothy 3:7, Luke 10:38-42, Matthew 22:34-40, James 3:17, Colossians 3:14, 1 Corinthians 13:2, 1 Corinthians 8:1
    Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    1 Corinthians 13:13, Mark 10:17-22, Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 22:34-40, Galatians 5:6, James 2:26
    Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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    Henry Drummond
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    Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 22:37-40, Revelation 21:1-4, Mark 10:17-27, John 3:16, Romans 8:38-39, 1 John 4:16
    We know but little now about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is that Love must last. God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet, therefore, that everlasting gift.

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    Robert Oxton Bolt
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    Matthew 22:37, Ephesians 4:23-24, Isaiah 26:3, Hebrews 11:1, Colossians 3:2, Philippians 2:5
    A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

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    W. H. Auden
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    Colossians 3:13, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 4:2, 1 John 4:19, Romans 5:8, Matthew 22:37-39
    You shall love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart.

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    Mother Teresa
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    Matthew 22:37-39, Luke 10:25-37, 1 John 3:18, John 13:1-17, Matthew 25:31-46, 1 John 4:7-12, Acts 2:44-45, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Mark 6:30-44, Galatians 5:22-23
    It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Matthew 22:35-40, Mark 12:28-31, Luke 10:27, Deuteronomy 6:4-5
    To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But ...

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    Rick Warren
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    Proverbs 23:7, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Colossians 3:2, Matthew 22:37, Isaiah 26:3
    The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

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    William Law
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    Matthew 6:33, Matthew 22:37-39, Colossians 3:23-24, Luke 12:15, Mark 8:36-37, Philippians 3:8, Micah 6:8, Romans 14:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Psalm 23:4, Philippians 1:21-23
    If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we a...

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    Oscar A. Romero
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    John 14:6, Matthew 22:37-38, Matthew 4:18-19, 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, Luke 10:40-42, John 10:11
    Christianity is not a collection of truths to be believed, of laws to be obeyed. Christianity is a person, one who loved us so much, one who calls for our love. Christianity is Christ.

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    William Goode
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    Matthew 22:37-40, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Hebrews 4:12, Psalm 119:105, Colossians 3:16, Matthew 4:4, Acts 17:11, John 5:39, 2 John 1:9, 1 Timothy 4:16
    The Catholic Christians (Early Church) will neither speak nor endure to hear anything in religion that is a stranger to Scripture; it being an evil heart of immodesty to speak those things which are n...

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    John Ortberg
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    Galatians 5:22-23, John 13:1-17, John 10:25-37, John 13:34-35, 1 John 4:7-8, Matthew 22:37-39
    Though I tweet like Justin Bieber and have more Facebook friends than the pope; though I get a BA from Cal and an MBA from Stanford; though I invented Snapchat and Uber; though I have great hair and w...

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    Joshua Jipp
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    Romans 12:1, Matthew 22:37-38, James 2:14-17, John 14:15, Luke 9:23, Philippians 2:5-8, Romans 10:9-10, Psalm 1:1-6
    New Testament theology is ‘inherently self-involving as it summons the reader to believe, confess, obey, and understand the entirety of one’s existence—both her or his thinking and willing—in light of...

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    Mother Teresa
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    Matthew 22:37-39, 2 Corinthians 9:7, Isaiah 9:6
    At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.

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    Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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    Jeremiah 29:13, Psalm 63:1-4, 1 Samuel 3:, Colossians 3:16, Philippians 4:8, Matthew 22:37-38
    To love God intellectually is to become a student of God—a student who really takes an interest in God. Have you ever noticed that a fair number of Christians are not particularly interested in God? S...
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