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 »
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 [...]
Tom Morris
Posted in Culture, Happiness, Humanity, Identity, Individualism, Knowledge, Mankind, Meaning, Pleasure, Searching, Values, Westernism on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good life involves freedom, love, work, pleasure, challenge, friendship, community, service, and the sort of resources that can be used creatively. (Tom Morris – former professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame)
Carl Sagan
Posted in Creation, Humanity, Mankind, Meaning, Science, Searching on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and [...]
C.S. Lewis
Posted in Desire, God, Humanity, Joy, Mankind, Worship on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I again tasted Joy. But far more often I frightened it away by my greedy impatience to snare it, and, even when it came, instantly destroyed it by introspection, and at all times vulgarized it by my false assumptions about its nature…To ‘get it again’ became my constant endeavor…And there lies the deadly error. Only [...]
Thomas Chalmers
Posted in Desire, God, Heart, Love, Mankind, Renewal, Sanctification, Sin on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The love of God and the love of the world, are two affections, not merely in a state of rivalship, but in a state of enmity—and that so irreconcilable, that they cannot dwell together in the same bosom. We have already affirmed how impossible it were for the heart, by any innate elasticity of its [...]
Thomas Chalmers
Posted in Desire, Heart, Humanity, Love, Mankind, Renewal, Sanctification, Sin on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is seldom that any of our tastes are made to disappear by a mere process of natural extinction. At least, it is very seldom, that this is done through the instrumentality of reasoning. It may be done by excessive pampering—but it is almost never done by the mere force of mental determination. But what [...]
Krishna
Posted in Hinduism, Humanity, Mankind, Pantheism, Spirituality on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He who sees in me all things, and all things in me, is never far from me, and I am never far from him. (Krishna, Bhagavad Gita)
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 [...]
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