The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they could hardly be seen as victories for Christ. They are stories in which the final pain of a fatal disease, or the fear of imminent death and eternal punishment, is identified as the factor necessary for otherwise rational people to believe in the supernatural. If mental torture is required to effect a conversion, what does that say about the reliability of the fundamental premises of Christianity to begin with? Evangelicals would be better advised to concentrate on converting the living. Converting the deceased suggests only that they can't convince those who can argue back. They should let the dead rest in peace. Lawrence M. Krauss
We loved with a love that was more than love.
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Edgar Allan Poe
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
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Tom Robbins
Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart
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Tammara Webber
Love is illogical, love had consequences-- I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
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Marie Lu
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
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Virginia Woolf
More Quotes By Lawrence M. Krauss
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t...
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You...
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not...
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been...
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
