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C. S. Lewis on Courage

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or…

Charles Spurgeon on Souls

“Consider how precious a soul must be, when both God and the Devil are after it.”

Douglas John Hall on God’s Problem

“God’s problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God’s problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life.”

Neil Postman on the Limitations of Science

“In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question,…

Paul Davies on the Universe

“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth – the universe looks suspiciously fixed.”

Arno Penzias on Creation

“The best data we have concerning the big bang are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms,…