Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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Unknown
Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for...
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Thomas A. Edison
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
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Peter Kreeft
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
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Benjamin Franklin Wade
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Alan W. Watts
More Quotes By N.T. Wright
Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be neatly divided up into evil people (particularly Arabs) and good...
..left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present..is to live as...
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead, ' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail, ' but it has nothing to do with morals,...
