"Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and think our spirit is a spark of the divine, "the God within everyone." That's not how the biblical writers thought about our spirits or souls."

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Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

Roger E. Olson

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“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”
“Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.”
“Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.”

Source : Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26,
“All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.”

Source : "The Moore legacy" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2008.
“We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.23, New Directions Publishing
“I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge-knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.”
“That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.”
“They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.”

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