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(Cal Thomas) A too-close association between religion and politics rarely causes damage to the state. The damage is caused to the church

(Thomas) These days in America you are allowed to be " religious" as long as you do not take your faith too seriously

(Thomas) Each presidential election cycle allows us to hold a mirror up to ourselves. The image we see is not the leader's face, but our own

(Thomas) The credibility of repentance diminishes the closer one gets to being found out

(Thomas) If the man didn't have bad character, he would have no character at all

( Thomas) Isn't a comet a dying star?

(Thomas) Some people have an enormous hole in their moral ozone layer

( Unidentifed Middle East commentator) The maximum Israel  can give is less than  the minimum the Palestinians will take

( John MacArthur) The content of the heart is the litmus test of character

( A. Rogers) A joyless Christian is an oxymoron

(Cal Thomas) Surely America's moral water table has reached drought level

(Thomas) People are always asking me if there are any politicians in Washington with convictions. Yes, I tell them. They're all in federal prisons

(Thomas) We ask government to do too much and complain when it accomplishes too little

( Thomas) Freedom is not license

(Thomas) If a nation's values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom

(Thomas) Government will always seek new ways to invade our lives unless it is stopped

(Thomas) People are better than institutions

(Thomas) It's our money, not the government's. We make it. They take it!

(Thomas) The GAO reports that most federal agencies cannot determine the effectiveness of their programs

(Thomas) Government should not be telling us how much of our money it intends for us to keep

(Thomas) Many children of poverty live without fathers and without hope

(Thomas) Much of government's answer to poverty has been the equivalent of a topical solution to an internal disease

(Thomas) True compassion means fixing something that is broken so that it will benefit the people it was designed to serve

( James Robison)  Do opinion polls lead us to truth?

(Robison) Is a Christian ministry purpose-centered or personality-driven?

(Robison) Many Americans have come to agree with the proposition that the only absolute is that there are no absolutes

(Robison) Prayer is our ultimate recourse and resource

(Robison) The absolutes continue to stand, constant and true, undimished by our failures, as our compass to true north

(G K Chesterton)  When asked to submit an essay on the topic, " What's wrong with the world?" replied, " Dear sirs. I  am "

( James Robison) I am certainly not the standard  by which to measure

( JFK statement in his 1961 inaugural address:" We will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty "

(James Robison) The existence of evil is self-evident. Its effects are the most basic observations of both anthropology and sociology. The gruesome results of evil clutter the pages of human history. In response to evil, the bankruptcy of relativism and appeasement are clearly evident

(Robison) The absolutes are the fixed points on the horizon by which we navigate the river of life. Moral relativists have recast certainty as tolerance. Orthodoxy was labeled as radical fundamentalism while heresy was praised for its honesty, courage, and ingenuity. Rebels were seen as heroes, whereas true heroes have either been forgotten altogether or have become the objects of cynicism. Judgment and discretion were abandoned for fear of being found guilty of judgmentalism and discrimination