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The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2 : Religion
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
David Brooksborn 1961
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The New Jerusalem
God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 6: How Will it All End?
- God
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Augustine of Hippo354–430De Libero Arbitrio (388—395)
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Forgiveness
- Love
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”
Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Encounter with Light
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Miracles” (1942), p. 29
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. II: “Divine Omnipotence”
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“The Road to Begin Your Life ((27 September 2007))”, 58.