In other words, TheÂolÂogy is pracÂtiÂcal: espeÂcially now. In the old days, when there was less eduÂcaÂtion and disÂcusÂsion, perÂhaps it was posÂsiÂble to get on with a very few simÂple ideas about God. But it is not so now. EveryÂone reads, everyÂone hears things disÂcussed. ConÂseÂquently, if you do not lisÂten to TheÂolÂogy, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones – bad, mudÂdled, out-of-date ideas. For a great many of the ideas about God which are trotÂted out as novelÂties to-day are simply the ones which real TheÂoloÂgians tried cenÂturies ago and rejected. . C.s. Lewis
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be...
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Graham Greene
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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Abraham Lincoln
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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Robert E. Howard
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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Peter Stone
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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Bruce Sterling
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