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The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
modern terminology, the word “cause” would be confined to the efficient cause. The unmoved mover may be regarded as a final cause: it supplies a purpose for change, which is essentially an evolution towards likeness with God.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Piety produces intellectual greatness precisely because piety in itself is quite indifferent to intellectual greatness.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
It may be stated as all axiom that to stay alive every created thing needs some other created thing and all things need God. To God alone nothing is necessary.
A. W. Tozer • Essential Tozer Collection
In its general outlines, the philosophy of Aquinas agrees with that of Aristotle, and will be accepted or rejected by a reader in the measure in which he accepts or rejects the philosophy of the Stagyrite.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Denys Turner writes, “In showing God to exist reason shows that we no longer know what ‘exists’ means.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable.