How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.


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There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
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Interdependency follows independence.
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You can say 'No' and smile only when there is a bigger 'Yes' burning inside of you.
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Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts and to write a new on...
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we areor, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, have trutha knowled...
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One of the best parts of being a family is that you can encourage one another. You can believe in on...
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
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Any time you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem.
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Plante uma idéia, colha uma ação; plante uma ação, colha um hábito; plante um hábito, colha u...
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic p...
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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation ...
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It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder a...
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong pl...
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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation...
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.
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The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with se...
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Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. An...
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
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When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.
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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begi...
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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Priority is a function of context.
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The noise of urgency creates an illusion of importance
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When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called "success". But o...
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