Matt C > Matt's Quotes

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.”
― Peter Enns, The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
― Deitrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The Pool of Shared Meaning is the birthplace of synergy”
― Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty

“beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées