The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the read more
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and read more
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, read more
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, read more
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
