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“...many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell.”
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“It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.”
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“But their overall effect was to overemphasize immediate personal conversion to Christ instead of a studied period of reflection and conviction; emotional, simple, popular preaching instead of intellectually careful and doctrinally precise sermons; and personal feelings and relationship to Christ instead of a deep grasp of the nature of Christian teaching and ideas.”
― Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
― Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The current understanding of happiness identifies it as a pleasurable feeling. Pleasant feelings are surely better than unpleasant ones, but the problem today is that people are obsessively concerned with feeling happiness; people are slaves to their feelings. Feelings are wonderful servants but terrible masters. When people make happiness their goal, they do not find it and, as a result, start living their lives vicariously through identification with celebrities.”
― Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life
― Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life
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