Knowing Our Limits

If we don't know ourselves and what shaped us, what neutralizes us, and what our limits are, we invite disaster.

Know-It-Alls

As the methods of science achieved greater and greater triumphs, both theoretical and practical, the old picture of how things are, the picture derived ...

The Greatest Science

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

-Sir Isaac Newton

The Pride of the Critics

How can human beings be so rash as to dare to pass judgment on something that they are not in the least able to understand?

Knowledge Comes from Obedience

Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.

Inside Knowledge

Religions, like languages, must be understood on their own terms, learned, as we would learn French grammar, from the inside.

Marx's Truth

When all the political foundations of religion are wiped out, when the organization and the institutional structure of the church are destroyed, then ...

Figuring Out Providence

I get a little weary of these dear souls who have all the dealing and doing of Providence catalogued and correlated and figured out and can give you glib ...

Touching Hearts, Not Turning Heads

An increase in speculative knowledge in divinity is not what is so much needed by our people as something else. Men may abound in this sort of light and ...

What the Astronomers Don't Know

The experts don't know for sure how old or how big the universe is. They don't know what most of it is made of. They don't know in any detail how it began ...