#modern

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people. ↗

— David Dark

#post-modern-christianity #communication

She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there’s no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#girls #louisa-may-alcott #love #lovers #manhood

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#modernity #naturalism #naturalism-as-science #presuppositions #science

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. ↗

— John Pople

#branches #changed #could #follow #had

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#author #being #book #classic #continuing

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #authority #baptize #christian #churches

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#conscience #europeans #example #importance #know

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age! ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#modernism #sex #age

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

#happily #heels #his #history #may