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Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.
- Oscar Wilde
That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.
- Pascal Boyer
Today there is no foundation. Ultimately what rules in a discipline today is the social pressure of the best professional opinion, and that changes.
- Dallas Willard
It is reasonable to expect that leading a divine conspiracy will require journalists, writers, artists, and scholars to carefully, accurately, and courageously expose the follies of our social institutions in government, business, religion, art, economics, engineering, medicine, law, finance, security, and education. This is where our Christian universities play perhaps the central role, if administrating the common flourishing is to occur in any meaningful way.
- Dallas Willard
External, social arrangements may be useful to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means.
- Dallas Willard
I made my Facebook name "Benefits," so when you add me now it says "you're friends with benefits."
- Anonymous
In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.
- William Golding
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.
- Leonard Ravenhill
It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to. Remove the joint!
- Lewis Carroll
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
- Tony Campolo
Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'
- Dennis Prager