“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought.”

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.”

“Therefore, we need not be disturbed when complete precision and certainty elude us; responsible uncertainty will take us considerably further than baseless assurance.”

“Providence withdrew its protection and our people fell... And in this hour we sink to our knees and beseech our almighty God that He may bless us, that He may give us the strength to carry on the struggle for the freedom, the future, the honor, and the peace of our people. So help us God.”

Sounds like something a pastor or politician might have said after September 11th. Click on the comments link to see who said this.

“truth is gained by patient study, by calm reflection, silently as the dew falls”

“Music's only purpose should be the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.”

Karl Barth, one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, was once asked to summarize all his writings on Christianity. He answered,

“Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”

“the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time.”

“No one is doing right who acts unwillingly, even if what he does is good in itself.”

“Meeting needs does not always satisfy needs; it often stokes further ones and raises the pressure of eventual disillusionment”

“One is not justified by faith by believing in justification by faith. One is justified by faith by believing in Jesus.”

The quotes that I will be posting in this space are ones that I come across in my reading. I will not agree with every quote I post. Sometimes a quote interests me because of the latent philosophy behind it with which I may disagree. My expectations are that I will in these cases (and others) post a comment with the quote that explains why I published it here.