Cathy Cabrices De DeCastro

“now reach a crucial error that seems to have escaped Hawking’s attention. It is to imagine that getting rid of gods either necessitates, or is the same as, getting rid of the God of creation as presented in the Bible. Far from it. For Moses and the Hebrew prophets it was absurd to deify various bits of the universe, like the sun, moon, and stars, and bow down to them as gods – and they said so. But they regarded it equally as absurd not to believe in, and bow down to, the Creator God who had made both the universe and them.”
― John C. Lennox, God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?

“The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“From Genesis to Revelation, the biblical view of the world is bipartite: “heaven and earth.” This phrase does not suggest that both spheres are part of the same space-time continuum, with “heaven” being simply a long way up in the sky. It assumes, on the contrary, that the two spheres were made to overlap and interlock.”
― N.T. Wright, God's Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal

“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.”
― Frederick Douglass