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In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.
— Tony Evans
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.
— John Mott
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
So God is not addressing Adam's workload, but rather the fact that he is a social being who lacks a suitable companion.
— Timothy Lane
Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.
— Oscar Wilde
Conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.
— Oscar Wilde
That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.
— Pascal Boyer
Today there is no foundation. Ultimately what rules in a discipline today is the social pressure of the best professional opinion, and that changes.
— Dallas Willard
It is reasonable to expect that leading a divine conspiracy will require journalists, writers, artists, and scholars to carefully, accurately, and courageously expose the follies of our social institutions in government, business, religion, art, economics, engineering, medicine, law, finance, security, and education. This is where our Christian universities play perhaps the central role, if administrating the common flourishing is to occur in any meaningful way.
— Dallas Willard
External, social arrangements may be useful to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means.
— Dallas Willard
I made my Facebook name "Benefits," so when you add me now it says "you're friends with benefits."
— Anonymous
In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.
— William Golding