"The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Miracle Quotes #Religion Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.22, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didnâ€™t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.”

Source : Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers”, p.173, Pan Macmillan
“Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.”
“Letters are things, not pictures of things.”
“Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.”
“Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.”

Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's artistic choice. Some people should choose only to make object form because that's what gives them pleasure. But there are people for whom aesthetic pleasure comes from doing something else, and why would you deny that choice? It's another autonomous choice.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

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