"When I really sought to understand it, I found the Bible far more interesting and—to my shock and consternation—coherent than I was expecting. I looked up answers to all my critical questions, thinking that perhaps others had not thought of issues I saw. I was wrong. Not only had they thought of all the issues, and more that I had not thought of, they had well-worked-out positions about them. I did not believe their answers, which sometimes struck me as contrived or unlikely. But often, they were shockingly plausible. The Bible could sustain interrogation; who knew? It slowly dawned on me that I was acquainting myself with the two-thousand-year-old tradition of theology. I found myself positively ashamed to realize that, despite having a Ph.D. in philosophy, I had never really understood what theology even is." Larry Sanger
"Elon had hired some talented young men, gave each of them a couple of flashlights, the four-battery kind, and told them to go down in the basement to shine the light on every cockroach they could find. This they have been doing with the exuberance of youth. And they have done much more than find a few cockroaches. They have found cockroach cities. And the cockroach bureaucrats and thought leaders are trying to get through this apocalypse by putting on a “who, me?” expression."
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of Jonathan Edwards resolutions, written in 1722, when he was just 19 years old:
“I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.”
The incarnate Son is the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15), the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature (Heb. 1:2), and the one in whom we see the Father (John 14:9–10).