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It is one thing to be judgmental; it is entirely different to say greed is wrong or that sexual sins are wrong, and saying so is not judgmentalism.
— Scot McKnight
Christians in Germany will face the terrible alternative of either willing the defeat of their nation in order that Christian civilization may survive, or willing the victory of their nation and thereby destroying our civilization.
— Scot McKnight
There is nothing complex about this most simple of moral maxims; its difficulty is in the doing, not in the knowing.
— Scot McKnight
we must learn to distinguish moral discernment from personal condemnation.2 This distinction—the ability to know what is good from what is bad and to be able to discern the difference versus the posture of condemning another person—enables us to see what Jesus prohibits in this passage.
— Scot McKnight
John does not adjudicate how to engage in politics. Instead, John instructs Christians how to discern the moral character of governments and politicians and policies and laws.
— Scot McKnight
It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.
— George W. Bush
It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
— Abraham Lincoln
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
— Ben Stein
If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.
— Dr. Seuss
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
— Thomas Jefferson
Is is always time to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
— Mark Twain