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Alister E Mcgrath Inspirational Quotes (39)

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The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.
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If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
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Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.
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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
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We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.
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Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
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We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.
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All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
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The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
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Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
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At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
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We live on earth our homeland is in heaven.
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Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
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Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.
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The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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