Kevin Miller

“Because reality is so massively important, Christianity has a long history of taking words and the definitions of words extremely seriously. We could fill libraries with Christian works arguing about the definitions of words like homoousia and homoiousia (same nature vs. similar nature), justification, free will, kingdom, and many other words. Is this because Christians throughout history have been word sticklers and dictionary snobs? No. It is because Christianity is a religion of truth. Since words have tremendous power to illuminate or obfuscate truth, definitions should be a big deal for Christians.”
― Thaddeus Williams, Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice

“But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin

“In the mid-19th century it took twenty-five men a full day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain; today one person operating a combine harvester can do it in six minutes.17”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956