50 quotes found
“About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.”
“As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but tho...”
“The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.”
“Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face.”
“To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion”
“I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I was overcome with fear. Yes, may God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frigh...”
“Be my God, so I can just be me.”
“A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.”
“Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.”
“Propositions are true or false. Images are not.”
“Not even generals can stop the rain.”
“We always pay dearly for chasing after what ischeap.”
“The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.”
“We view God as a resource that will broker all my cheap desires.”
“If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.”
“Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.”
“Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.”
“Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.”
