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Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think. ”
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone. ”
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem. ”
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ”
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ”
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. ”
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. ”
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ”
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ”
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. ”