Christian Quote by Peter Adamson Download Open image “I'm sure that Plotinus wasn't that impressed by the Christians.” — Peter Adamson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian Christianity Impressed
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the next several… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind. — Edward Hicks Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Christianity is itself so jolly a thing that it fills the possessor of it with a certain silly exuberance, which sad and high-minded Rationalists… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul. — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle,… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night. — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away. — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The forms in intellect are some kind of blueprint or model on which the physical world is based, and something needs to come along… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in the Bible… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
In fact Plotinus thought not only that soul in general is eternal so that you always have soul, but he thought that each person's… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
