Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent — and flew straight into the ground. She was unaware that she had been flying upside down.
This is a parable of human existence in our times—not exactly that everyone is crashing, though [...]
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Dallas Willard
Posted in Autonomy, Blindness, Brokenness, Culture, Experience, Humanity, Mankind, Spirituality, Westernism on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Arthur Miller
Posted in Autonomy, Creator, Humanity, Identity, Judgment, Meaning on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quentin: You know, more and more I think that for many years I looked at life like a case at law, a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then a good father; finally, how wise, or powerful, or what-the-hell-ever. But underlying it [...]
Flannery O’Connor
Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Belief, Death, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Resurrection on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead and he shouldn’t have done it. He’s thrown everything off balance. If he did what he said, then it’s nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if he didn’t, then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the [...]
Vincent Van Gogh
Posted in Arts, Autonomy, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Love, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Selfishness, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Sometimes it is well to go into the world and converse with people, and at times one is obliged to do [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Posted in Autonomy, Christian Life, Church, Community, Sin on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, not withstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final breakthrough to fellowship does not occur because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Culture, Imagination, Pantheism on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god dances through me. (Friedrich Nietzsche [1844–1900], German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture).
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).
Herman Bavinck
Posted in Autonomy, Creation, Creator, Darwin, Evolution, Mankind, Science on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The arguments against Darwinism in general are weighty, with the problem of human origins and transitions from one species to another particularly insoluble. The theory of evolution also clashes with Scripture with regard to the age, the unity, and the original abode of humanity. Above all, it is essential to maintain the fundamental unity of [...]
National Geographic
Posted in Autonomy, Creation, Science on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New DNA studies suggest that all humans descended from a single African ancestor who lived some 60,000 years ago. (National Geographic News, April 2005)
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