If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that


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Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that c...
HUGH MACKAY
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to em...
HUGH MACKAY
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all ava...
HUGH MACKAY
No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
HUGH MACKAY
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was some...
HUGH MACKAY
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
HUGH MACKAY
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling ...
HUGH MACKAY
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ...
HUGH MACKAY
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's ...
HUGH JACKMAN
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that....
HUGH JACKMAN
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can so...
HUGH JACKMAN
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT
The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are bu...
HUGH HEFNER
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE
Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER
I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h...
HUGH SHELTON
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I ...
HUGH GRANT
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hem...
HUGH MACKAY
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life wa...
HUGH HEFNER
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we p...
HUGH JACKMAN
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par...
HUGH JACKMAN
I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don&...
HUGH JACKMAN
The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Z...
HUGH JACKMAN
I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frai...
HUGH MACKAY
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels c...
HUGH GRANT
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And wh...
HUGH PRATHER
A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view you...
HUGH CAREY
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a...
HUGH SIDEY
I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta...
HUGH JACKMAN
I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac...
HUGH LAURIE
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love somethin...
HUGH JACKMAN
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am...
HUGH LAURIE
Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the acti...
HUGH JACKMAN
What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on ...
HUGH ROSS
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me...
HUGH LAURIE
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines....
HUGH GRANT
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a t...
HUGH JACKMAN
It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards,...
HUGH GRANT
I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn'...
HUGH JACKMAN
I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and ...
HUGH GRANT