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We live on earth our homeland is in heaven.

Alister E. McGrath

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Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
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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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A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
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To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.
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The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world it was now about serving God in the world
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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
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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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Suffering does not call into question the big picture of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.
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Puzzles lead to logical answers mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.
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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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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.
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The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
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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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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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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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