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“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
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“we must at all times remember what intellectuals habitually forget... the worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas”
― Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
― Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Factually and objectively, however, nothing is indifferent, neither in nature, nor in the state, nor in science and art. All things, even the most humble, have their specific place and meaning in the context of the whole. Human beings are indifferent only to what they do not, or do not sufficiently, know; they automatically assess and appreciate what they do know. God, who knows all things, is not indifferent to anything.”
― Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 1 : Prolegomena
― Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 1 : Prolegomena
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