Quotemeal: May. 3rd, 2003

Saturday, May 3, 2003

"Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity."
— R. C. Sproul

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"Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship."
— Douglas Horton —
"Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world."
— Thomas Traherne —
"The greatest act of faith is when man decides he is not God."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes —
"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also,...."
— Frederick Buechner —

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Illustration of R. C. Sproul — "Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity."

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