QUOTES

"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."

--Jose Ortega y Gassett, The Revolt of the Masses, 1929

"Every word is a prejudice."

--F. Nietszche

"Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned."

--1 Corinthians 14:20

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them."

--Mark Twain

"Atheism is a sign of mental strength, but only up to a certain point."

--Blaise Pascal, *Pensees*.

"Be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults."

--1 Corinthians 14:20

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

--Aristotle

"For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."

--2 Tim. 4:3-4

"There are two kinds of atheists: those who think they are atheists, and those who are atheists."

--Jacques Maritain, *The Range of Reason*

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."

--Plato

"Urge the younger men to be self-controlled."

--Titus 2:6

"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth-- not going all the way, and not starting."

--Buddha

"When we say a thing or an event is real, never mind how suspect it sounds, we honor it. But when a thing is made up-- regardless of how true and just it seems-- we turn up our noses. That's the age we live in. The documentary age. As if we can never, never get enough facts."

--Carol Shields, *The Stone Diaries*

"And without faith, it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."

--Hebrews 11:6

"Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religions must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon."

--Jacques Maritain, *The Range of Reason*.

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

--Adlai Stevenson

"The doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord."

--James 1:8

"The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man."

--Jose Ortega y Gassett

"There are some things in [Saint Paul's letters which are] hard to understand which the ignorant and unstable turn to their own destruction, as they do the Scriptures."

--2 Peter 1:16

"Too often we ...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

--John f. Kennedy

"In Paris, they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."

--Mark Twain