Category Archives: Quotations

Tim Keller Quote on Truth and Love

Posted on April 2, 2015 by PaulVK

The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful and wonderful at once. The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis Articulates the Great Materialist Myth

Posted on March 5, 2015 by PaulVK

From his essay “Is Theology Poetry” The play is preceded by the most austere of all preludes: the infinite void, and matter restlessly moving to bring forth it knows not what. Then, by the millionth millionth chance—what tragic irony—the conditions … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis Meditation on the Third Commandment

Posted on March 5, 2015 by PaulVK

Lewis What, then, will the Christian Party actually do? Philarchus, a devout Christian, is convinced that temporal welfare can flow only from a Christian life, and that a Christian life can be promoted in the community only by an authoritarian … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis on the Obstinacy in Belief

Posted on February 26, 2015 by PaulVK

We believe that His intention is to create a certain personal relation between Himself and us, a relation really sui generis but analogically describable in terms of filial or of erotic love. Complete trust is an ingredient in that relation— … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis on the UnDemocratic God

Posted on February 13, 2015 by PaulVK

We, with our modern democratic and arithmetical presuppositions would so have liked and expected all men to start equal in their search for God. One has the picture of great centripetal roads coming from all directions, with well-disposed people, all … Continue reading →

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First Black CRC Pastor Eugene Callendar defended Billie Holiday

Posted on February 12, 2015 by PaulVK

On the street outside the hospital, protesters gathered, led by a Harlem pastor named the Reverend Eugene Callender. They held up signs reading “Let Lady Live.” Callender had built a clinic for heroin addicts in his church, and he pleaded … Continue reading →

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Chesterton on Skeptics

Posted on December 18, 2014 by PaulVK

But the new rebel is a Sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants … Continue reading →

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Julian the Apostate’s Letter trying to prop up Hellenistic Religion

Posted on October 10, 2014 by PaulVK

The Hellenic religion does not yet prosper as I desire, and it is the fault of those who profess it; for the worship of the gods is on a splendid and magnificent scale, surpassing every prayer and every hope. May … Continue reading →

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Keller’s Quote on the God-Man Suffering by Albert Camus

Posted on September 19, 2014 by PaulVK

Believe it or not, Albert Camus understood that. In this amazing piece of writing, Camus says almost these exact words, “Christ, the God-man, suffers too. Evil and death can no longer be entirely imputed to him since he suffers and … Continue reading →

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Rowan Williams “The Spiritual and the Religious”

Posted on September 17, 2014 by PaulVK

http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1208/the-spiritual-and-the-religious-is-the-territory-changing As the economic power of the average individual changes and thus the availability of a wider assortment of chosen identities opens up, ‘monopolistic’ claims about what constitutes identity lose their social and imaginative plausibility: we are always going to … Continue reading →

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