Marvin Olasky Quotes

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• But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

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  Being Strong, Christian, Mean

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• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

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  Powerful, Philosophy, Animal

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• Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

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  Believe, Fighting, Temptation

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• Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

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  Christian, Religious, Roots

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• [The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

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  Ideas, Scary, May

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• More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

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  Games, Play, People

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• Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

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  Christian, Religious, Powerful

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• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Needs, Quota

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• On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

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  Courage, Real, Issues

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• Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

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  Regret, Giving

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• I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

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  Race, Alternatives, Favors

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• Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

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  Biblical, Giving, Mind

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• We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

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  Mean, Compassion, Too Much

  Marvin Olasky (1994). “The Tragedy of American Compassion”, p.232, Regnery Publishing

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• For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

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  Religious, Home, White

  "Christian Right Says Ayn Rand Could Split GOP" by Eric Sapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

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  Tired, Organization, Effort

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• Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

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  Jobs, Feminist, Athletic

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• A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

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  Jobs, Way, Talent

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• And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

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  Wimps, Causes, Speak

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• Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

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  Humility, Harm, Giver

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• Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

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  Children, Mean, Epidemics

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• Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

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  Clever, Book, Tough Questions

  "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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• I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

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  Christian, Atheist, Years

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• Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

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  Love, Peace, Struggle

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• Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

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  Beautiful, Years, Pro Life

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• I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

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  Numbers, Immigrants, Knows

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