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在宗教信仰，就像在戰爭與其他各樣事情，安慰不是你能找得來的。你如果尋找真理，最後卻能找到安慰；你如果尋找安慰，既找不到安慰，也找不到真理，無非一開始是些花言巧語跟一廂情願的幻想，最後落到絕望。我們大部分人已經擺脫了戰爭前對國際政治一廂情願的幻想，現在也該擺脫對宗教的一廂情願看法了。
“超市排隊結帳，服務生多嘴問老太太外套哪裡買的。話一拋出，後續便無法收拾，美國老太太多麼渴望有人跟自己說話啊。相信我，剛到美國若想找人練英文，到超市隨便找個老太太讚賞她的外套，就會知道她們有多寂寞。老太太回答外套是欣蒂送的，那年聖誕節blah blah blah……話多又不能一心二用的店員，碰上話更多又寂寞到不行的老太太，後方排隊人龍都快結蜘蛛網了，還得陪聽欣蒂的故事。當然，全世界沒人知道欣蒂是誰。”
― 我失敗的美式生活：鱸魚的三十年日常觀察與非典型剖析
― 我失敗的美式生活：鱸魚的三十年日常觀察與非典型剖析
“What is needed is a biblically rooted,30 patristically guided,31 ecclesially located, and publicly engaged theology, done in critical conversation with the sciences and the various disciplines of the humanities, at the center of which is the question of the flourishing life.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
“magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique,”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“所以說，你如果不肯聽神學，不代表你對上帝沒有概念，而是你有著很多錯誤的、壞的、含糊不清的、過時的觀念。”
― 我如何思考基督教: 認識魯益師返璞歸真的信仰(Mere Christianity)
― 我如何思考基督教: 認識魯益師返璞歸真的信仰(Mere Christianity)
“requires going beyond the controversies that occasioned the letters to identify claims undergirding Paul’s theology that are so fundamental either for Paul or for both Paul and his audience that they are assumed and therefore referenced merely obliquely and relatively rarely.”
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
― For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
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