charli conway’s Reviews > Why Being Yourself Is a Bad Idea: And Other Countercultural Notions > Status Update

I take back what I said I have just been launched into a chapter all about Jesus

‘God’s presence brings out the goodness in all things - he is not a rival to them. that doesn’t mean there aren’t some choices to make, habits to avoid and priorities to fix, but it does help us to see how bringing God into a person’s life might enhance the ordinary things of that life, bringing out its colour and flavour rather than crowding out all that is good and beautiful’

‘you can prove or disprove events, ideas or theories because each of them relates to and is connected to other things within the universe, so you can tell whether they make sense or not or whether there is enough historical or observational evidence to amount to reasonable proof. what Christians mean by God is by definition beyond all that exists within that system, and not subject to normal types of proof’

‘by definition, when they speak about God, Christians are referring to something, or someone, uncreated, the one entity that is not made by anything else, but just is. If everything we see around us is contingent, God is the only being that is necessary. God is not dependant on anything else, but is the one whom everything else depends on’

‘purely material explanations for the emergence of the universe only every explain how something actually comes from something else. they don’t explain and neither could they ever explain, how something emerges from absolutely nothing at all’

‘cynicism is usually the hard crust of a hurting soul’