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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.
Alister E. McGrath
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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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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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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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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 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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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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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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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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If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.
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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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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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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.
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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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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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For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.
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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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