“Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.” IfsFeelsDesireUniverseGrowsMysteryQuietManageImmortalityImmortalEmbeddedDuration Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.” WorldUniverseBeliefSidesObjectsHabitArgumentErrorsAtheistContemporaryRelatedAgencyEncountersMagnitudeDurationBelief In GodCraftsmanArtifactsConceiving Author:David Bentley Hart
“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?” IfsMenShouldYearsLittlesEndsMatterLastsUniverseKnowledgeOur LivesHigherTenShould HaveEternityInfinityWhat MattersDurationMore Knowledge Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works