Quotes by Marvin Olasky - Page 1

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
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Giving
Regret
Rarely
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I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
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Immigrants
Knows
Numbers
Number
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Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.
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Christian
Religious
Roots
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A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.
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Jobs
Talent
Way
Talents
Employ
God-Given
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I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
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Alternatives
Favors
Race
Favor
Preferences
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[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.
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Ideas
May
Scary
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On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
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Courage
Issues
Real
Sensitive
Topics
Open
Cheap
Nailed
Pry
Sensitive Issues
Shut
Takes
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Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
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Love
Peace
Jihad
Peaceful
Struggle
Define
Internal
Muslims
Primarily
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I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
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Atheist
Christian
Years
Years Ago
Jewish
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Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.
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Christian
Powerful
Religious
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It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
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Jobs
Defined
Way
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But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.
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Being Strong
Christ
Christian
Courageous
Mean
Be Strong
Christians
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That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
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Immigrants
Regarding
Tear
Test
Welcomed
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And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.
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Causes
Disservice
Promoting
Speak
Wimps
Cause
Loudly
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We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.
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Compassion
Mean
Too Much
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
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Giver
Harm
Humility
Philanthropic
Prudence
Sufficient
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Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
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Jobs
Athletic
Discrimination
Feminist
Population
Scream
Feminists
Gain
Percentage
Scholarships
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Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.
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Easter
Christian
Ice
Moving
Olympics
Pairs
Skating
Sync
Winter
Jewish
Saw
Holidays
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Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
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Artificial
Baseball
Needs
Return
Spring
Rules
Advantages
Enforcing
Steroids
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The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
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Believe
Christian
Data
Religious
Believing
Christians
Indicate
Jews
Lens
Thoroughly
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The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
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Candy
Disneyland
Holy
Holy Land
Land
Minutes
Serious
Equivalent
Wrapper
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Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
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Opportunity
Backlash
Increase
Minorities
Needs
Quota
Unfair
Better Way
Bureaucratic
Expand
Individuals
Minority
Opportunities
Provoke
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.
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Academia
Animal
High Ground
Human Beings
Machines
Most Powerful
Philosophy
Powerful
Animals
Beings
Courts
Materialist
Philosophies
Possess
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Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.
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Christian
Religious
Spiritual
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Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
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Believe
Fighting
Importance
Serving
Serving Others
Temptation
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Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
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Advice
Civil War
Months
Summer
Civil
Officially
Visit
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More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.
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Defamation
Games
People
Play
Secular
Particularly
Liberals
More People
Pattern
Recognize
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Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
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Angry
Beautiful
Fifteen
Males
Meetings
Movement
Pro Life
Years
Years Ago
Women Beautiful Face
Temporarily
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Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.
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Concerned
Effort
Ordinary
Organization
Poverty
Tired
Apart
Communities
Deliberately
Efforts
Philanthropists
Reactive
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Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.
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Easter
Believe
Grace
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Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
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Aids
Children
Epidemics
Mean
African
Ages
Epidemic
Historically
Million
Orphaned
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For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.
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Home
Religious
White
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Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.
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Biblical
Giving
Mind
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Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.
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Book
Clever
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