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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
I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.
— Lenny Abrahamson
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
There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!
— Robert Anthony Kerr
Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself.
— David Bentley Hart
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
— David Bentley Hart
The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,
— David Bentley Hart
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
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
The modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not
— David Bentley Hart
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
— Anne McCaffrey
We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.
— Brett Morris
Sin is the repetition of an absence, whose logic is suppression, aversion, and privation.
— David Bentley Hart
When she has an opinion, she makes it yours, and you'd do well to simply agree and pray she turns her attention elsewhere.
— John Urbancik
His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.
— Margaret Atwood
Ontological necessity is not a property that can intelligibly attach to any nature other than God's.
— David Bentley Hart
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
