#heo

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#philosophy #theology #change

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#been #contains #left #like #object

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#danny #element #encounters #freudian #heart

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#baby #bisexual #come #domino #down

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. ↗

— John Piper

#reformed #theology #goals

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #jesus

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#better #counter #few #films #idiotic

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ↗

— Henry James

#education #theory #art