We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.” — John Daniel Copy Share Image
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken. — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world that of… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the Divine, it… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
