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Marvin Olasky (born June 12, 1950) is editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including Fighting for Liberty and Virtue and The Tragedy of American Compassion, and is a distinguished chair in journalism and public policy at Patrick Henry College. He has been married since 1976 to writer Susan Olasky, and they have four sons and five grandchildren.

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Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

Christian, Religious, Roots, Liberation

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Being Strong, Christian, Mean, Courageous, Look, Understand

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Allows, Defined, Job, Jobs, Starts, Way

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

Compassion, Cover, Mean, Nothing, Too Much

Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

Biblical, Giving, Mind, Advantage, Right, Surveys

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

Age, Atheist, Christian, Marxist, Years

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Internal, Jihad, Love, Peace, Struggle

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

Beautiful, Years, Pro Life, Fifteen, Movement, Angry

Do we want to know whether Christ was resurrected on Easter? God provides the grace to believe in that, but note: Such belief requires less faith in things unseen than believing that the world as we know it evolved out of nothing.

Believe, Believing, Easter, Grace, Resurrected, World

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

Alternatives, Favors, Governmental, Preferences, Race

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Believe, Fighting, Temptation, Way, Close

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

Believe, Christian, Christians, Religious, See, Wrong

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

Employ, Job, Jobs, Talent, Way

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Numbers, Immigrants, Knows, Right, Know, Number

Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm.

Christian, Prejudice, Realm, Religious, Spiritual, Understanding

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

Christian, Educational, Institutions, Powerful, Religious

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

Needs, Opportunities, Opportunity, Provoke, Quota, Way

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

Courage, Issues, Pry, Real, Talk, Topics

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Giver, Harm, Humility, Necessary, Prudence

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

Book, Clever, Essential, George, Tough Questions

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