"Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the……" — Norman Geisler
"Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants."
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13 Quotes by Norman Geisler
Norman Geisler has 13 quotes on this site.
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While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of…
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Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love,…
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So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha;…
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In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example,…
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If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would…
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Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate…
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Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus…
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Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.
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Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically…
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The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the…
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For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in…
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One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul…
— Robert Barron
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
— Lionel Blue
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads…
— Edward Feser
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s…
— Mishka
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that…
— James A. Michener
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of…
— Allan Bloom
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