June 5, 2008

"Whoever has undergone the intense experience of successful advances in this domain [science] is moved by profound reverence for the rationality made manifest in existence . . . the grandeur of reason incarnate in existence."
- Albert Einstein, "Ideas and Opinions"


"Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity of which we somehow form a part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God, with a capital "G". Science is, very usually, branded as being atheistic. After what we have said this is not astonishing. If its world picture does not even contain beauty, delight, sorrow, if personality is cut out of it by agreement, how should it contain the most sublime idea that presents itself to the human mind."
- Erwin Schrodinger, "My View of the World" (p 93)

March 16th, 2007

"God's answers to life's questions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny are not just proven by the process of abstract reasoning, but are also sustained by the rigors of experience."
- Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org) "The Empirical Demonstration of Truth"

"In the radically changed security environment of the modern world, dealing with Iran and other countries that challenge the West requires a new strategic vision. Big powers instinctively try to keep their rivals from becoming strong. Today, however, strong states are no longer the real enemy; weak ones are. Strong states produce security, even if not always in ways the West likes. Weak states produce instability that hurts everyone, especially the United States."
- Stephen Kinzer, published originally in The Boston Globe (3/16/07)

February 19th, 2007

"Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is."
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 142)

"What God begets is God; just as what man begets is man. What God creates is not God; just as what man makes is not man. That is why men are not Sons of God in the sense that Christ was."
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 158)

"This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life."
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 159)

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
- C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" (p 140)