Character Quote by Richard Holloway Download Open image “The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.” — Richard Holloway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Debate Moral Use Worthless
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a God is like saying you are an economist because you play Monopoly. — Robert W. Cox Copy Share Image
Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: “A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“When you consider atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, their strongest arguments are “moral arguments” against the existence… — Taylor R. Marshall Copy Share Image
...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no absolute morality,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself from all… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“We know you are going to be enthralled by the mystery of sexuality, which is hardly surprising since it is the energy of life itself. We know it will have the power to take you over for it's own purposes, and we know you won't always be able to resist it. Try at least to think about its possible consequences.… — Richard Holloway Copy Share
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“Hannah Arendt scorned this preoccupation with death and proposed a new symbolism that emphasized not the inevitability of our dying, but the actuality of our living. She wanted us to think of ourselves, not as mortals, but as natals, as those who are alive; and she wanted us to act for love not hatred of the world…In her exposition of… — Richard Holloway Copy Share
“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and convey in language, but how can that ever be done? If the word water is not itself drinkable, how can the words we use to express the mystery of God be themselves absolute? They are metaphors, analogies, figures… — Richard Holloway Copy Share
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience. — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion. — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
