#heo

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#created #god #hell #judge #men

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#due #explain #here #mystery #once

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#philosophy #theology #wonder #worship #attitude

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. ↗

— Harlow Shapley

#fade #good #never #observations #theories

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how. ↗

— Jennifer Wyatt

#bike #forgotten #golf #haven #how

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#marriage #mind #mindfulness #philosophy #theology

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#civilization #culture #found #group #living

My body kills me, so I kill it. ↗

— Dorotheus the Theban

#death #desert-father #dying #holy-father #monastic

Love gives you eyes. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #eyes #inspirational #jesus-shock #love

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#better #card #change #credit #credit card