Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Dale Carnegie – entrepreneur and self help writer [1888-1955]).
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Dale Carnegie
Posted in Contentment, Happiness, Success on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Calvin
Posted in Autonomy, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Individualism, Knowledge, Sin on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he first has looked upon God’s face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. (John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion I:1:2 [page 37 of the Battles Translation]. Calvin was a 16th c. protestant reformer, pastor and theologian).
Lauren Winner
Posted in Belief, Faith, God, Imagination, Love, Searching, Spirituality, Worship on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Latin credo means literally, ‘I give my heart.’ The word believe is a problematic one today, in part because it has gradually changed its meaning from being a language of certainty so deep that I could give my heart to it, to the language of uncertainty so shallow that only the ‘credulous’ would rely [...]
Miroslav Volf
Posted in Anger, Experience, Faith, God, Hate, Justice, Love, Mankind, Values, Westernism, Worship, Wrath on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If God were not angry at injustice and deception and did not make a final end to violence – that God would not be worthy of worship…the only means of prohibiting all recourse to violence by ourselves is to insist that violence is legitimate only when it comes from God…My thesis that the practice of [...]
Becky Pippert
Posted in Anger, Hate, Love, Wrath on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anger isn’t the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference…God’s love is not a cranky explosion, but his settled opposition to the cancer…which is eating out the insides of the human race he loves with his whole being. (Becky Pippert, Hope Has Its Reasons)
Timothy Keller
Posted in Anger, God, Judgment, Justice, Love, Wrath on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Christianity God is both a God of love and of justice. Many people struggle with this. They believe that a loving God can’t be a judging God…”How can a God of love be also a God filled with wrath and anger? If he is loving and perfect, he should forgive and accept everyone. He [...]
Bertrand Russell
Posted in God, Hell, Jesus Christ, Judgmentalism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. (Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian)
Maud Flanders
Posted in Christian Life, Humorous, Judgmentalism, Religion, Skepticism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was at Bible camp, learning how to be more judgmental. (Maud Flanders on The Simpsons)
Arthur C. Clarke
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Humanity, Image of God, Individualism, Mankind, Rationalism, Reason, Searching, Skepticism, Spirituality, Westernism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. (Arthur C. Clarke – Atheist and British science fiction author, most famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey. [1917-2008])
Unknown
Posted in Belief, Experience, Faith, Rationalism, Reason on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It’s not that we don’t want to, but too much has happened that we just can’t.
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