“When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.” StillsEnoughTodayReligionUniverseCausesCan DoMaterialsDemandEternalArgumentChainsExplanationPointingSkepticPlausibleLikelihoodInfidelCausality Author:Taner Edis
“Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime” ShouldChristianHellCrimeDemandEternalWorshipEthicsRevengeProportionParadoxAvengersChristian Ethics Author:Jo Nesbo
“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.” IfsFacesWinningNationsFailingDemandEternalPagesIndependenceSlaverySacredGods WillCrueltyOppositionPensHeritageDeclarationPilgrimDeclaration Of IndependenceMajesticWe Will WinPlymouth Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.” FactsDiesDemandEternalMiracleInfiniteFinite Book:For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.” MenWantHumansDoeArtSoulWholeFormHuman BeingsCreativeDemandEternalDeedsCreative PowerFigments Book:I and Thou Source: I and Thou
“The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.” WorldIdeasPlanetsDemandEternalAbsolutesAncientDoctrinePursuePeacefulOur WorldNervesArrogantCreedsExistentialInquiryEliminationImplicitCohabitation Author:Wole Soyinka
“It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again. To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.” ThinkingKnowsWellsIdeasDreamMightPainReligionOrderWishSleepCrimeJudgingDemandEternalSickSlaveHorribleBeing TrueTortureWakingOur ThoughtsOur DreamsConvicts Author:Christopher Hitchens
“If any earthly institution or custom conflicts with God's will, it is your Christian duty to oppose it. You must never allow the transitory, evanescent demands of man-made institutions to take precedence over the eternal demands of the Almighty God.” IfsMenMadeChristianDutyDemandConflictEternalInstitutionsGods WillCustomsAlmightyAlmighty GodTransitoryPrecedence Author:Martin Luther
“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires” MenWayHeartEndsRealityEarthRomanceJoyDesireDarknessDivineHonorTasteDemandEternalGloryBlessedEvery ManSurrenderGreat ThingsEnduranceParadoxFrustratedSacramentsFaithfulnessFidelityLove RelationshipBlessed SacramentComplexionHearts Desire Author:J. R. R. Tolkien