"Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire,……" — David Bentley Hart
"Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)"
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18 Quotes by David Bentley Hart
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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…
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms…
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is,…
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Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor…
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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…
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not…
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Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius…
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But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and…
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For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering,…
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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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Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of…
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More Agape Quotes
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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…
— David Bentley Hart
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On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what…
— Joyce Meyer
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What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape…
— Max Lucado
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Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.
— Peter Kreeft
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Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact…
— Pope Francis
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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
— Mother Teresa
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Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
— Ann Brashares
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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which…
— Chinua Achebe
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Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape…
— Rob Bell
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The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined…
— Stephen Kendrick
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There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed…
— Stephen Kendrick
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The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their…
— Stephen Fry
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