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Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.

Alister E. McGrath

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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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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 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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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
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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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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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Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
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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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Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
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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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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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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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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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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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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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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 reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
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