it is also wrong to suggest that science is the only way to truth. That idea, which is widespread today, is a belief called 'scientism.' Think about it: if science were the only way to truth, you would have to get rid of half the faculties in any school or university - history, literature, languages, art and music, for a start

John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College; and Associate Fellow of the Said Business School.

The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God in which he revealed to us by the language of mathematics.

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

The modern world is the product of a revolution in scientific method... Both experiment in science, and the siting of sources as evidence in history, arise from the worldview of Jerusalem, not Athens, from Jews and Christians, not the Greeks.

Edwin Judge, historian

The Holy Ghost in the sinner, or the sinner as born of the Spirit of Christ, submits to God. Any view that stops short of this is rotten as Pelagianism itself.

John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886), "The Anxious Bench (Second Edition), Antichrist, and the Sermon Catholic Unity," Wipf and Stock publishers, 2000.

If you do not fully understand the passage, it is probably because you do not know the way the author is using certain words.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading," Simon & Schuster, page 102.

According to "100 Years of Nobel Prizes" (2005) by Baruch Aba Shalev, a review of Nobel Prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, 65.4% of Nobel Prize Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (423 prizes). Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all Nobel Prizes in Peace, 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics, 62% in Medicine, 54% in Economics and 49.5% of all Literature awards.

John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College; and Associate Fellow of the Said Business School.

If the popular definition of the Kingdom of God, viz., that it is "God's reign in the heart" (thus confounding God's Sovereignty with a special Kingdom of promise) is correct, how comes it that the prophets assign it specified time and place in the future?

George N. H. Peters (1825-1909), "The Theocratic Kingdom," Proposition 116, Observation 5.

I want to suggest that the popular idea that science and God do not mix is simply not true, and that it is relatively easy to establish that.

John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College; and Associate Fellow of the Said Business School.

I was taught that shyness is not a virtue but a defect, and that it comes from placing too high a value on yourself - a value that for bids you to risk your self in the encounter with others. I think there is truth in this diagnosis.

Roger Scruton (1944-2020)

Q. What is meant by justification? Ans. It is verbum forense, a word borrowed from law-court, wherein a person arraigned in pronounced righteous, and is openly absolved. God, in justifying a person, pronounces him to be righteous, and looks upon him as if he had not sinned.

Thomas Watson (c. 1620-1686)

What were once centers of intellectual development have become retreats for the emotionally fragile.

Gad Saad, PhD, professor at Concordia University

"the gathered company of those who are called" and "we should not dream of a chosen people anywhere but in this visible gathered company."

Melanchthon, in the Loci communes of 1543, describing the church.

Porn is Satan recruiting us to degrade a woman into the opposite of who she is - from royalty to slavery.

Ray Ortland, "The Death Of Porn: Men Of Integrity Building A World Of Nobility," page 46.

If you have the habit of asking a book questions as you read, you are a better reader then if you do not.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

People go to sleep over good books not because they are unwilling to make the effort, but because they do not know how to make it. Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not. And books that are over your head weary you unless you can reach up to them and pull yourself up to their level. It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively. To keep on reading actively, you must have not only the will to do so, but also the skill-the art that enables you to elevate yourself by mastering what at first sight seems to be beyond you.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

Having thus discerned the infinite malice of the devil and your own exceeding weakness, how do you think you were preserved from his snares while you slept? Or do you think he only besets you when you are awake?

Elizabeth Brooke Jocelin (1595-1622)

Eighty and six years have I served my Lord, and He has been my truest Friend. How can I blaspheme Him who shed His blood to wash away my sins?

Polycarp (69-155 AD)

How can anybody say that the ten commandments are the believer's rule when 2 Corinthians 3 tells us that the administration of death, written and engraven on stones 'is done away', and 'is abolished'?

David H. J. Gay

Every solution to every problem creates at least one new problem, often a bigger problem than the original problem.

John S. Waldrip

Reading, like unaided discovery, is learning from an absent teacher. We can only do that successfully if we know how.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren ("How To Read A Book")

The goal a reader seeks - be it entertainment, information or understanding - determines the way he reads.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren ("How To Read A Book")

Never give a command that you do not intend to be obeyed. There is no more effectual way of teaching a child disobedience than by giving commands that you have no intention of enforcing. The child is thus habituated to disregard its mother; and, in a short time, the habit becomes so strong and the child's contempt for the mother so confirmed that entreaties and threats are alike unheeded.

John Stevens Cabot Abbot (1805-1877)

There is a certain kind of ignorance that precedes knowledge. There is another kind of ignorance that comes after it. The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their ABC's, cannot read at all. The second is the ignorance of those who have misread many books. There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read to widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doran, "How To Read A Book"

The more active the reading the better.

Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001), author of "How To Read A Book" and associate editor of "Great Books Of The Western World."

To preach and not to catechise is to build without foundation.

Thomas Watson (1620-1686)