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If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

Culture and Value

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Culture and Value

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

Culture and Value

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...

The Epistle to the Philippians

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

Faraday as a Discoverer

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

The Christ event did not in that sense CHANGE the will of God, but rather it more clearly expressed God's eternal will toward the whole of history.

Guilt Free

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Jo Ann Emerson

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go aw...

Leonard Susskind

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Pope Francis

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

Charles Hodge

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

Damien Hirst

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

John Polkinghorne

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

Paul Davies