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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#ask #bush #case #government #him

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#communication #define #electronic #evangelicals #financial

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#alarmed #away #become #believe #chuck

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. ↗

— Albert Camus

#appreciate #art #conducive #does #dream

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. ↗

— Albert Camus

#art #detours #first #great #heart

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ↗

— Albert Camus

#generosity #giving #lies #present #real

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. ↗

— Albert Camus

#either #ends #every #heretic #oppressor

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. ↗

— Albert Camus

#his #idea #love #man #once

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off. ↗

— Tom Welling

#i #i love #lines #love #more

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure