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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 many victims it…

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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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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how… — David Bentley Hart
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror. — Guillermo del Toro
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at… — Robert Breault
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our… — Carl Sagan
Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." — Peter Kreeft
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and… — William C. Kirby
There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who… — David Cross
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech -… — Ann Coulter
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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