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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

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I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: September 30th, 1941

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