Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
