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• This is the reality about humanity. We are each born with an evil, God-hating heart. Genesis 8: 21 says that every inclination of man's heart is evil from childhood, and Jesus' words in Luke 11: 13 assume that we know we are evil.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Hate, Heart

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• The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

  David Platt

  Hopelessness, Shrinks, Conditions

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• Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

  David Platt

  Successful, Church Today, Keys

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• We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

  David Platt

  Book, Grace, Centering

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• For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that it was the living truth. It was logically incontrovertible. It provided for the first time a firm foundation for ethics. It offered mankind the radical change of heart and mind that was our only hope of peace at a time of desperate danger. Only one small problem remained. I must find a way to convert the world to my way of thinking.

  Freeman Dyson

  Heart, Thinking, Small Problems

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

  Carroll Quigley

  Pregnancy, Years, United States

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Commitment, Ideas, United States

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• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

  Dean Ornish

  Heart, Exercise, Vegetarian Diet

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• The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Taken, Years

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

  Juan Williams

  Airplane, Npr, Yesterday

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" By Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Sleep, Animal, Ideas

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• The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

  Neil T Anderson

  Transformation, Progressive, Moments

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

  Sam Keen

  Strong, Men, Two

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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Country, Children, Hate

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Ideas, Battle

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.40, Penguin

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• People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

  Tom Freston

  Blessing, People, Suffering

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• I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

  Sylvia Rivera

  Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Revolution

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• I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

  Mark Satin

  War, Exercise, Thinking

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• Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Biblical, Reality, Men

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• Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Crazy, Ideas, Mind

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• Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

  David Bowie

  Artist, Radical Change, Made

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• To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Views, World, Who We Are

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• The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .

  Stephen Batchelor

  Acceptance, Self, Mindfulness

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• One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Believe, Can Do

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