"Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others)."

-- George Pattison

#Religious Quotes #Believe Quotes #Communication Quotes

“If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?”
“Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.”
“If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.”
“There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.”

Source : Deborah Turbeville, Louis Auchincloss (1994). “Deborah Turbeville's Newport remembered: a photographic portrait of a gilded past”, ABRAMS
“Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.”
“The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action”
“I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frownâ€¦let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.”
“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”

Source : Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.14, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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