Philip Clayton famous quotes
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Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.
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There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures.
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I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?
-- Philip Clayton
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...
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I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
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