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Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
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The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so…
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…
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Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the…
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for…
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…
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Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose…
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But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the…
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Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion…
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For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and…
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The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
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A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to…
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The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater…
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…
— David Bentley Hart
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Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most…
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To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war…
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So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against…
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I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I…
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Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
— John Mason Brown
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But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect…
— Samuel Johnson
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