The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death. Cal Thomas More Quotes by Cal Thomas More Quotes From Cal Thomas If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite. Cal Thomas favorslife-isfall Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you. Cal Thomas islamchristianson One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Cal Thomas objectivityhatepeople No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology. Cal Thomas teachersexschool No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that. Cal Thomas acceptanceteacherchildren The more we come to rely on government, the fewer freedoms we will enjoy. Government will start dictating what we can own, eat and drive, how much of our money they will let us keep, how we run our businesses, how many - if any - guns we can own, and what we may and may not say. Oh, wait! They are already doing that. To preserve freedom we must fight for it. Cal Thomas fightinggunrunning We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void. Cal Thomas enlightenmentbiblicalchristian One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear. Cal Thomas believelyingpeople In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. Cal Thomas governmentchangereflection Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain. Cal Thomas careerscharactercountry It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it. Cal Thomas christianaveragejesus America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love. Cal Thomas politicalorganizationamerica As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money. Cal Thomas doetryingmean As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society. Cal Thomas elderlypressureease In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league? Cal Thomas religiouschristianrunning In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. Cal Thomas taxpayersdollarspoor The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One. Cal Thomas forcekingdomsair All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off. Cal Thomas teenagechristiansex President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals. Cal Thomas realjobsmen People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use? Cal Thomas prayerpeopleschool
