"Christian faith, as I understand it, is not……" — Terry Eagleton
"Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love."
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine.…
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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways…
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting…
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One…
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Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish…
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish…
— Frank Moore Colby
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
— Rumi
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we…
— Stephen Levine
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This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment –…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of…
— Sakyong Mipham
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We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or…
— Laurence Binyon
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Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise…
— Plato
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Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and…
— Al-Ghazali
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