To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

Cornel West
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The beautiful thing about being a Christian is that there is no limit to what you can be. You can be anything you want to be, with the whole universe at your back, with love in your heart and in your soul. In fact, you don’t have to do anything except try with all of your might to be a good person. That’s all you need to do to be a Christian.

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