"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

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Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.191, Sheba Blake Publishing

Ernest Shackleton

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Naked Quotes

“It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.”
“Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.”
“I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.”
“Make sure your vision is God's vision.”
“Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.”
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.”

Source : "Fictional character: Unicorn / Lady Amalthea". "The Last Unicorn", 1982.
“Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
“Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

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