Quotes
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind - Winston Churchill, Harvard University, Sept 6, 1943
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. - Winston Churchill
"My friends, silence will be more acceptable to me in the discussion of these questions than applause. I desire to address myself to your judgment, your understanding, and your consciences, and not to your passions or your enthusiasms." - Stephen Douglas when the crowd erupted in applause while he spoke during one of the Douglas/Lincoln Debates.
"We Christians suffer from two disastrous problems of the mind: First, we don't stay focused on God for very long. Second, we don't think as deeply as we should." J.P. Moreland
"God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed Word." Galileo Galilei
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.... For this reason, the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what at a given time he may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like." A.W. Tozer
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially formed you to
go through it, not without pain but without stain. C. S. Lewis
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties
today of its strength. -- C. H. Spurgeon
There is no offset for the loss of truth. There can only be a cover up of what has taken place. When our knowledge of God’s truth is diminished, our understanding of God is diminished, no amount of contrived mystery through ancient liturgies or gathering in the presence of dim, flickering candlelight can compensate for this loss. - David F. Wells, The Courage to Be Protestant, page 18
After years in the academy I have learned a trade secret: If you know enough about a subject you can confuse anybody by a selective use of the facts. Ravi Zacharias, The End of Reason, pg 38
The inescapable fact for the atheist is that life is a random product of time plus matter plus chance. Ibid.
Fascinating isn't it, how we all define our own terms. but wish to deny the other the privilege of questioning those definitions? Ravi Zacharias, Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend, pg xix
One of the most interesting things about studying the history of philosophy is discovering how many which are dressed up as modern have been tried out (and answered) generations ago. Colin Brown, Philosophy and the Christian Faith, pg. 11
