Category Archives: Quotations

Bertrand Russell’s Free Man’s Religion Quotations

Posted on January 6, 2012 by PaulVK

Tim Keller used this in his sermon “Save in the Plan”. I found it to be a quote used by others. I’ll include the full paragraph. Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world … Continue reading →

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Chesterton Quote on Happiness

Posted on December 31, 2011 by PaulVK

If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy-tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of a fairy-tale lies in this: that the prince has a wonder which just stops short of being fear. If … Continue reading →

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True Love and False Love

Posted on September 26, 2011 by PaulVK

Some years ago a theologian named William Vanstone wrote a book, now out of print, that included an interesting chapter called The Phenomenology of Love.41 All human beings, he says—even people who from childhood were deprived of love—know the difference … Continue reading →

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Quote from “On Being” by Peter Atkins

Posted on June 18, 2011 by PaulVK

Gleaned this from the Books and Culture podcast.  This quote nicely shows the core argument of the book. It’s hard to see how much it is an argument as it is a naked assertion. “In broad terms the law asserts (2nd … Continue reading →

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The defeater dynamic of everything new

Posted on April 21, 2011 by PaulVK

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8 1. Students think they know it 2. They don’t pay utmost attention 3. They don’t recognize that what was presented differs from what they were already thinking 4. They don’t learn a thing. 5. They get more confident … Continue reading →

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The Evocative and the Descriptive

Posted on April 11, 2011 by PaulVK

A new quote from Rob Bell, his redux of the Apostle’s creed if you will. My name is Rob, and I live in Grand Rapids, Mich., and I’m a Christian. I believe in Jesus, and I believe Jesus is the … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis’ House Illustration from Mere Christianity

Posted on April 8, 2011 by PaulVK

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you … Continue reading →

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The acquisition of an independent moral consciousness

Posted on March 23, 2011 by PaulVK

David attempts to console his accomplice Joab in the murder of Uriah the Hittite with the line “let this thing not seem evil in your eyes” and goes on to make comments about how that’s just the way of the … Continue reading →

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Screwtape Letters 23

Posted on March 21, 2011 by PaulVK

Uncle Screwtape is schooling young Wormwood in how to trip up Christian. How to make him unfruitful. Chapter 23 goes on about distracting the patient in the question for a true biography of Jesus. Then he finishes it off with … Continue reading →

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Not so with you…

Posted on March 8, 2011 by PaulVK

Working on Luke 22:23-30. The disciples break out into bickering at the Last Supper. Jesus tells them that one of them will betray him, and they all proceed to betray the fact that they haven’t had a clue of what … Continue reading →

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