"To reenchant nature is not merely to gain……" — Alister E. McGrath
"To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence."
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26 Quotes by Alister E. McGrath
Alister E. McGrath has 26 quotes on this site.
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and…
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Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in…
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The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology…
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God…
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have…
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the…
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All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest…
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We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.
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The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with…
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
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More Contemplation Quotes
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
— Jacob Bronowski
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
— Samuel Alexander
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of…
— John Jay Chapman
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Diane Arbus
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