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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
— Anne Lamott
An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:
— David Bentley Hart
It is pleasant to believe one's society is more "enlightened" or "rational" than all others,
— David Bentley Hart
ardent persistence in devotion,
— David Bentley Hart
More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
— David Bentley Hart
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
— David Bentley Hart
Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself.
— David Bentley Hart
The horse is a mirror to your soul ... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
— Buck Brannaman
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
— David Bentley Hart
Ontological necessity is not a property that can intelligibly attach to any nature other than God's.
— David Bentley Hart
God, understood in this proper sense, is essentially beyond finite comprehension;
— David Bentley Hart
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.
— David Bentley Hart
God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty.
— David Bentley Hart
The discourse of power is, of its nature, bombastic, pontifical, and domineering.
— David Bentley Hart
The greatest Church Fathers, for instance, took it for granted that the creation narratives of Genesis could not be treated literally,
— David Bentley Hart
David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them
— Harry Redknapp
The modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not
— David Bentley Hart
Where once there was a void,Now at least there are
Seeds of splendour,
Becalmed belief for another time. — Scott Hastie
The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,
— David Bentley Hart
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
— David Bentley Hart
Sin is the repetition of an absence, whose logic is suppression, aversion, and privation.
— David Bentley Hart
For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.
— Karen Marie Moning
Athletes are very cool to me.
— Regina King
Enlightenment, if left unclouded by pathetic fancy, leads to a very special and bracing sort of nihilism - positivist, rationalist ... merciless.
— David Bentley Hart
It is certainly the demiurge about whom Stenger and Dawkins write; neither has actually ever written a word about God.
— David Bentley Hart
The soul is a story that can always be retold.
— David Bentley Hart
The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
— Albert J. Nock
We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away
— David Bentley
