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if you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart -
- Nelson Mandela
We may borrow… from foreign ideologies, but we reject the wholesale importation of foreign ideologies into Africa.
- Nelson Mandela
I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.
- Nikki Giovanni
In that thoroughly evil and violent and depraved culture, there was no hope for those children. This nation was so polluted that it as like gangrene that was taking over a person's leg, and God had to amputate the leg or the gangrene would spread and there wouldn't be anything left. In a sense, God's action was an act of mercy.
- Norman Geisler
If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?
- Norman Geisler
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.
- Os Guinness
Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.
- Os Guinness
The Christianization of the modern world is leading to the modernization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus. Similarly, as we shall see, the Christianization of America has led to the Americanization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus.
- Os Guinness
the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.
- Os Guinness
We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.
- Os Guinness
Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.
- Os Guinness