At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter. — 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
![“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 preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church…” quote by John Daniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e75/john-daniel-33836_age_in-the-agreement-to-rescue-rome-i-e-the_1110756.jpg)
![“[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 from separate experiences weave together, so that the rememberer thinks of them as having happened together. The actual year or…” quote by John Daniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/067/john-daniel-33836_dementia_memory-is-a-system-of-near-infinite-comp_2876187.jpg)