Hate speech laws themselves, and other quotes

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“‘Hate speech’ laws themselves should be viewed as a form of hate speech because they are designed to silence dissent.” -- Shelton Smith

“We often times read Scripture, thinking of what [we think] it ought to say, rather than what it does say.” -- Charles H. Spurgeon

“Scripture is the enemy of the flesh: the unrepentant war against it, the saved submit to it with joy.” -- Benjamin Mabee

“God possesses infinite knowledge and the knowledge of humans is limited to their observations and their ability and capacity to reason. So, what seems superfluous and flawed to human reason may actually be true.” -- Ed Garrett

“Talk sense to the fool and he calls you foolish.” -- attributed to Euripides

“Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.”

“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

“All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all.” -- 2nd London Baptist Confession, Chap. 1, Para. 7

“If we cannot trust that God has kept his word, which says he keeps our souls, how can we trust that he keeps our souls?”

“We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.” -- Thomas S. Monson

“Assurance is a fruit that grows out of the root of faith.” -- Stephen Charnock

“Pray to have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst in them, and a mind that forgets the worst and remembers the best.” -- Unknown

“If I utter a syllable that is not justified by the Scriptures, don’t believe me. The Bible is the only rule.” -- D. L. Moody

“We must always emphasize the Christian starting point that all our thinking ought to have. If we are Christians, then we must begin our thinking not with the assertions of unbelieving scholars and their naturalistic human logic, but with Christ and the logic of faith.” -- E. F. Hills