“To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.” SelfLyingFatherJesusIdentityClaimsCoreUnconditional LoveDependenceUnconditionalEstrangement Author:Terry Eagleton
“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.” GovernmentActionFatherRightsEconomicDemandClaimsMedicineGoodsFoundingOur Founding FathersTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Ilana Mercer
“Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.” FatherJesusSidesPrayerSinBloodPrayingClaimsLoadThronesWearyLone Author:A. B. Simpson
“We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.” WorldMotherFatherNationsClaims Book:Redburn Source: Redburn
“Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.” MotherFatherJesusClaimsAppearanceHeavenlyRudeVirginsHeavenly FatherCoarse Book:God is Not Great Source: God is Not Great
“If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.” IfsStatesBodyLawFatherBornChurchLibertyClaimsSacredPrivilegeSubstanceAcknowledgeHeritageThronesAdoptedOur FatherEnglishmenRejectingCharterCastesMiltonEnglish Law Book:Oration and memorial addresses Source: Oration and memorial addresses
“But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.” KnowsImportantStatesAbleFatherUnitedLibertyPrinciplesUnited StatesStudyRecordsGreaterBirthGloryClaimsProfoundDeedsImmortalAdmirationRepublicReverenceChaptersAdoptionNobilityMajestyPilgrimDescentCharterKinshipCabinsFruitionDraftingMayflower Book:Club and society addresses Source: Club and society addresses