“The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.” MenWritingMindSchoolEarthFacesLiteratureStudyTeacherModernMen And WomenProductionsSatisfiedTheologyAdmireStampsTheologicalKinderSuperficialityShallownessVaguenessHollownessAimlessness Author:J. C. Ryle
“A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.” MenMayDoeDifficultModernAdmireReformSweepingModern Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things” FirstsTwoSoulBodyDealsModernPhilosopherAdmireContributionFascinatedPantheismSpinoza Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.” CultureDifficultBlackModernEuropeAdmireAncestorSplitsModern LifeInner LifeEquilibriumUnstableAfrican Culture Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor