"Time is an interval in eternity, finitude is a space in infinity, and freedom is a concession of the eternal love.  God withdraws himself in order to go out of himself.  Eternity breathes itself in, so as to breathe out the Spirit of Life."

-Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom

"Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you're kids, not because you're right." -Rich Mullins, addressing adult children of God

"This is the disobedience of the 'believers;' when they are asked to obey, they simply confess their unbelief and leave it at that (Mark 9.24).  You are trifling with the subject.  If you believe, take the ( Read more... )

"Without any ingratitude for the brilliance of [biological engineers'] genetic achievements, some of us believe that salvation lies beyond any human revolution (even the scientific one), and that any human movement that claims utlimacy for its own vision breeds tragedy."
-Human Medicine: Ethical Perspectives on Today's Medical Issues (1984)

"...[The Bible] and science are different things. That does not mean that God and nature are different things."

-John H. Walton, summarizing how the opening text of Genesis does not make material-driven science it's concern (thus dooming any search for such), but rather how it demonstrates God's bringing into being the infinitely more important ( Read more... )

"Let a man be faithful: let him be powerful in the utterance of knowledge; let him be wise in judging of words; let him be pure in all his deeds; yet the more he seems to be superior to others [in these respects], the more humble-minded ought he to be, and to seek the common good of all, and not merely his own advantage."

-Clement of Rome

"How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of God! Life in immortality, splendour in righteousness, truth in liberty, faith in assurance, self-control in holiness!" - Clement of Rome's First Epistle to the Corinthians

Here are some quotes I had on my profile for a year or so, that I am now removing.

><><><>"The glory of God is man, fully alive ( Read more... )

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it ( Read more... )

 "God gave me both a penis and brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."

"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

-Robin Williams

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"I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald.  I mean, if ( Read more... )

 "Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of all knowledge."

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."

"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."

"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one ( Read more... )