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		Instead, it was a Christianity engaged with modernity and postmodernity — grappling with its issues, sensitive to its questions and concerns, aware of its spiritual vacuum, in vital dialogue with its artistic and intellectual leaders. It was a “third-way” faith seeking to steer a course that would avoid defensive retreat and isolation on the one hand and capitulation and sellout on the other.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brian De Palma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Robert H. Schuller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Epictetus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Albert Einstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Martin Luther King, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				William Shakespeare 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Neil Diamond 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Michael Gove 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				David Malouf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Instead, it was a Christianity engaged with modernity and postmodernity — grappling with its issues, sensitive to its questions and concerns, aware of its spiritual vacuum, in vital dialogue with its artistic and intellectual leaders. It was a “third-way” faith seeking to steer a course that would avoid defensive retreat and isolation on the one hand and capitulation and sellout on the other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brian D. McLaren