R. C. Sproul Quotes
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.
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Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara Desert says it all It's a miracle. All God's creations great and small, the Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal That's a miracle. Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone It's a miracle.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
