"Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to……" — David Bentley Hart
"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 has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society."
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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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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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Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that…
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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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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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