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Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.


Robert A. Schuller

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Belief gets in the way of learning.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, Wha...
ROBERT A. COOK I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
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