Kevin Maurer quotes

“God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.”
-- Kevin Maurer

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“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”

“Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.”

“I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic”

“Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.”

“Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.”

“Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.”

“I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.”

“There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.”

Source : Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

“I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.”