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 [...]
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Arthur Miller
Posted in Autonomy, Creator, Humanity, Identity, Judgment, Meaning on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Piper
Posted in Beauty, Commitment, Creator, God, Incarnation on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You find a God whose commitment to the cause of his people is grounded not in his people but in himself. His passion to save and to purify feeds itself not from the shallow soil of our value but from the infinite depth of his own…The deepest reason given for God’s commitment to his people [...]
Augustine
Posted in Creator, Heart, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. (St. Augustine, [354-430])
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).
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])
Herman Bavinck
Posted in Creation, Creator, Humanity, Image of God, Mankind on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The essence of human nature is its being [created in] the image of God. The entire world is a revelation of God, a mirror of his attributes and perfections. Every creature in its own way and degree is the embodiment of a divine thought. But among creatures, only man is the image of God, God’s [...]
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 [...]
G.K. Chesterton
Posted in Belief, Creation, Creator, Faith, God, Materialism on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption: … it is supposed that if a thing goes on repeating itself it is probably dead; a piece of clockwork. People feel that if the universe was personal it would vary; if the sun were alive it would dance…
Grown-up people are [...]
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