William Daniel Phillips famous quotes

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I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible.
-- William Daniel Phillips

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I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.
-- William Daniel Phillips

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Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.
-- William Daniel Phillips

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phÃ©nomÃ¨ne", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

William Daniel Phillips famous quotes

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