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My family has grown to love all of the Trumps because they are wonderful people willing to sacrifice much for their country.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience.
— Mother Angelica
The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I think we've got every chance of being an Olympic sport and, if they did put us in, I know they'd sell a lot of tickets and the atmosphere would be fantastic. I would love to see it, I really would. If you want to sell tickets and get thousands of people there, then do it.
— Phil Taylor
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.
— Samuel Rutherford
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
— Edith Wharton
Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
— Henry David Thoreau
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.
— Marianne Williamson
Second, an incarnational missional life is evangelistic. Just as Jesus did not merely come only to do good works for the needy but primarily to save lost people, Jesus' people are likewise to pursue lost people for evangelistic friendships.174
— Mark Driscoll
The book of Luke is the account of the Spirit-empowered ministry of Jesus on the earth, and Acts is the account of the Spirit-empowered ministry of Jesus' people on the earth, the extension of Jesus' ministry through his people by the Spirit's power.
— Mark Driscoll