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“You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.”

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“Is Jesus adding to the law by broadening our attention from murder to anger and contempt? By no means. He is pointing out the seedling that grows into the thorny vine that chokes out life. He is appealing to us to fastidiously weed the garden of our personal holiness. He is teaching that if every person dealt with anger quickly and rightly, there would be no need for the sixth word at all (p. 94).”

Anger Ten Commandments

Book:Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

Source: Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

“Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.”

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Book:The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

Source: The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

“When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery.”

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Author:David G. McAfee

“Neither the Ten Commandments nor the great commandment is revelatory if separated from the divine covenant with Israel or from the presence of the Kingdom of God in the Christ. These commandments were meant and should be taken as interpretations of a new reality, not as orders directed against the old reality. They are descriptions and not laws. ~ vol. 1, p.125”

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Book:Systematic Theology: Three Volumes in One

Source: Systematic Theology: Three Volumes in One

“Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?”

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Book:The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

Source: The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

“The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?”

Atheism Ten Commandments

Book:Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Source: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

“My eleventh commandment is to make sure I follow the first ten.”

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Author:Matshona Dhliwayo

“done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got another DEGREE, now Google Gillian Mk2, what else can I do?”

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Book:Gillian Mk2

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“Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.”

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Book:Twilight of the Assholes

Source: Twilight of the Assholes

“It is the duty of the United Nations, is to make every international border a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.”

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Book:Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth

Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth

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