"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."

“I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.”

“I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.”

“I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.”

“Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.”

Source : Roger E. Olson (2013). “The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction”, p.27, InterVarsity Press

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.”

“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”

“God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”