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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
Alister E. McGrath
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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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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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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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We live on earth our homeland is in heaven.
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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 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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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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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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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
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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 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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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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Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
Alister E. McGrath
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
Alister E. McGrath
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
Alister E. McGrath
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
Alister E. McGrath
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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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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