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The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all…

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Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so…
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the…
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for…
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose…
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the…
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion…
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and…
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;… — Laozi
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson
Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess. — Umar
The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of… — Grover Cleveland
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. — Oscar Wilde
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles
My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me… — Ina Garten
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll
If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,… — Friedrich Schiller

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