#theo

O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it! I saw how it contains within its depths all things bound in a single book by love of which creation is the scattered leaves: how substance, accident, and their relation were fused in such a way that what I now describe is but a glimmer of that Light. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#theophany #love

I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas? ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#philosophy #theology #love

The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon. ↗

— Matt Chandler

#theology #love

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#before #came #into #minimalism #moved

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #hearts #heaven

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #scientific-theory #inspirational

A theology that endangers life rather than "giving life" is one that cannot accept the title of being adequately Christian. ↗

— Michael Joseph Brown

#religion #theology #inspirational

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christian #christian-living #inspirational #micah #the-legend-of-the-seer

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. ↗

— George MacDonald

#humanity #inspirational #religion #theology #wonder

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination