Quotes of: Watt Keyword

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

William Ellery Channing

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

William A. Dembski

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

William A. Dembski

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

William Law

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

William Law

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Walter Wink

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

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

The Epistle to the Philippians

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

The Essential Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

The Essential Alan Watts

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

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

In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.

Vincent Nichols

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

John Wesley

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols