“My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.” Quote by Crowder
“The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.” PeopleWayImportantSchoolStarsSportsWaterMediaPoliticianVisibleRealisticMovie StarExposureSports Stars Author:Crowder
“In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.” PersonsMediaExpectationsDistanceUnrealistic Expectations Author:Crowder
“People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.” PeopleCharacterPayAttentionOpinionStruggleDemandPay AttentionFascinatedJustification Author:Martin Walser
“Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.” AtheismReturnComfortEverydayAtheistCommittedAgendasRetreatAwakened Author:Martin Walser
“You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.” TryingYearsAbandonNot Interested Author:Martin Walser
“I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.” BelieveImportantI BelieveConditionsSensitivity Author:Martin Walser
“As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.” AtheistRhythmMake SenseExplanation Author:Martin Walser
“Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.” IfsMissingFilledAtheistCommittedDedicatedWorldlyRichnessWorldly LifeSchubert Author:Martin Walser
“Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.” FeelsUseLanguageComfortableCages Author:Martin Walser