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- Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
- First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn…
- Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
- Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason…
- Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,…
- ...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions…
- After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.
- 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals…
- The faith I was born into formed me.
- It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations…
- Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It…
- The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case,…
- When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong