Quotes about Philosophy
Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.
— John Piper
Edwards's piety continued on in the revivalist tradition, his theology continued on in academic Calvinism, but there were no successors to his God-centered worldview or his profoundly theological philosophy. The disappearance of Edwards's perspective in American Christian history has been a tragedy. Mark Noll
— John Piper
Edwards believed his Biblical theology was, in fact, a true rendering of reality, and therefore could stand confidently in the marketplace of philosophical ideas and give an account of itself--which in his hands it would do.
— John Piper
Epistemology models ontology.
— John Polkinghorne
The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.
— John Tillotson
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
— John Updike
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
— Ellen Glasgow
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
— Emily Bronte
Ask anyone what she means when she says 'God' and chances are that you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Reason is the enemy of faith.
— Martin Luther
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
— George Lucas