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The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Alister E. McGrath

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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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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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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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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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Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.
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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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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
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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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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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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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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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