Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

Institutes of the Christian Religion

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

Journal of Discurses, Volume 10

probation. Jesus Christ was and is Jehovah, the God of Adam and of Noah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God at whose instance the prophets of the ages have spoken, the God of all nations, and He who shall yet reign on ea...

Jesus the Christ

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection

The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.

Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

The Sacrament Of Charity: Sacramentum Caritatis

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

The Mystery of Providence

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunders...

My View of the World

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the des...

Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

Theology of Hope

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.

Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples