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“In addition, since they were committed to reasoning about God, the Jews were quick to embrace the Greek concern for valid reasoning. What emerged was an image of God as not only eternal and immutable but also as conscious, concerned, and rational. The early Christians fully accepted this image of God. They also added and emphasized the proposition that our knowledge of God and of his creation is progressive. Faith in both reason and progress were essential to the rise of the West.”
― How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
― How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
“As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle.”
― Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
― Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
“Forgiveness is giving up hope of a better past.”
― Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
― Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
“Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human pride and God’s grace takes place. Insofar as human pride may win the battle, religion can and does become one of the instruments of human sin. But insofar as there the self does meet God and so can surrender to something beyond its own self-interest, religion may provide the one possibility for a much needed and very rare release from our common self-concern.23”
― Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
― Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
“The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are direct, sincere, and true to themselves. From the social point of view these persons would constitute the best guarantee that the future development of the social organism would be toward good. From the Christian point of view they have no other sin on their conscience save their contempt for Caesar, or their in correct evaluation of his might.”
― The Captive Mind
― The Captive Mind
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