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Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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