“There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayShouldMomentsEarthSpeakGivenForceVoiceDarkSilenceHeardThis WorldBeatsMen And WomenEarsNoiseRollingThunderMoment Of SilenceTreetops Author:Peter L. Berger
“If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe” IfsWayEuropeElites Author:Peter L. Berger
“Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.” PeopleWayKindSeemsReligiousHelpfulSecularFundamentalismReligious Fundamentalism Author:Peter L. Berger
“I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.” PeopleWayKindCertainCommunityOrganizationLeagueDeclineAggravationBowling Author:Peter L. Berger
“On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.” MenWayMaySaidBodyHandsAnimalBalanceContraryAgain And AgainEntityOrganismsIdentical Author:Peter L. Berger
