"When the old poets made some virtue their……" — Alister E. McGrath
"When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,"
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26 Quotes by Alister E. McGrath
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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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To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw…
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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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More Adoring Quotes
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Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to…
— Randolph Bourne
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us…
— Saint Augustine
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to…
— Richard Attenborough
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We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will…
— Laura Ingraham
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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and…
— Mary Frances Berry
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As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them…
— Celia Thaxter
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Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism…
— Evelyn Underhill
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I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.
— Jan Potocki
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When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It…
— Pope Francis
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