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clearly teach that there is no approach to the knowledge of God that does not involve turning the mind and the will toward the perception of God in all things and of all things in God.
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
Or do such Sisyphean philosophies—that “the road is life”—turn out to be bourgeois luxuries indulged by those safe enough to pretend this is all there is? Does the hunger and hope of the migrant show us something more fundamentally human? Maybe our craving for rest, refuge, arrival, home is a hunger that can’t be edited—the heart an obstinate palim
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.
Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
Stanford, I had the good fortune to study with Richard Rorty,
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
All science can do, Kalanithi argues, is “reduce phenomena into manageable units.” It can make “claims about matter and energy” but about nothing else.
Timothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.