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Quotes about Coherence

Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made the dizzying complexities of it all perfectly coherent.
- Eric Metaxas
I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.
- Ravi Zacharias
Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.
- LM Montgomery
I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.
- John Polkinghorne
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
- Mortimer Adler
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
- Francis Schaeffer
With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts together.
- Andy Stanley
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
- Lewis Carroll
The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is overwhelming indeed; also his achievement of the system of absolute measurement in the field of electromagnetism. In my opinion it is impossible to achieve a coherent objective picture of the world on the basis of concepts which are taken more or less from inner psychological experience.
- Albert Einstein
If people take seriously doctrines such as the divinity of Christ, it is not primarily because they can treat them as if they were tidy conclusions to an argument, deductions from readily available evidence, but because — however obscurely they are grasped, however challenging the detail — they see that the language of doctrine holds together a set of intractably complex questions in a way that offers a coherent context for human living.
- Rowan Williams
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation.
- John Donne
Universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.
- James Sire