Quotes about Philosophy

Long before pragmatism was developed into a full-blown American philosophy (see chapter 8), it had already been formulated and practiced by evangelical leaders.

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

The biblical worldview fulfills both the requirements of human reason and the yearnings of the human spirit.

A mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence.

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

why should we acquiesce in letting philosophical naturalists prescribe the definition of science itself? The only reason for restricting science to methodological naturalism is if we assume from the outset that philosophical naturalism is true—that nature is a closed system of cause and effect. But if it is not true, then restricting science to naturalistic theories is not a good strategy for getting at the truth.47

The danger is that is Christians do not consciously develop a biblical approach to a subject, then we will unconsciously absorb some other philosophical approach.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.