Theism quotes

When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Marriage #Sorrow #Theism
Anti-theism presupposes Theism
-- Cornelius Van Til

#Theism
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
-- Dan Barker

#Mean #Atheism #Theism
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
-- Karl Rahner

#Struggle #Atheism #Theism
The opposite of theism is not atheism, itâ€™s idolatry
-- Peter Kreeft

#Opposites #Atheism #Theism
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Atheism #Pantheism #Theism
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
-- William James

#God #Principles #Theism
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
-- Elliott Sober

#Biology #Latter #Theism

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
I wish you all had one neck that I had my hands on it.
When Russell was out, you stepped your game up for me, for the team. There were nights where you made me look way better than I am. You clean up so many of our mistakes, man, and we appreciate that. From everybody on the team, we appreciate that, man, and I thank you so much for giving me confidence when I didn't have it, for always being there when I wanted to talk to you, when I wanted to call, for arguing with me all the time, making me better, and realizing I'm not always right. Thank you, man. I appreciate you.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.