“In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.” -C.S. Lewis, Miracles
Tag Archives: general revelation
Everybody is Religious, It’s Just How Human Beings Are
“The religious impulse, the quest for meaning that transcends the restricted space of empirical existence in this world, has been a perennial feature of humanity. (This is not a theological statement but an anthropological one—an agnostic or even an atheist philosopher may well agree with it.) It would require something close to a mutation of the species to extinguish this impulse for good.” -Peter Berger, The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics
The Music of Nature and Creation
“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another… and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.” -Leonard Bernstein
The Arid, Irrational Creed of Atheism
“As a matter of fact, I am sure the opposite is the case and that materialist atheism is not merely an arid creed, but totally irrational. Materialist atheism says we are just a collection of chemicals. It has no answer whatsoever to the question of how we should be capable of love or heroism or poetry if we are simply animated pieces of meat.” -A.N. Wilson, “Religion of hatred”
Intuitive Knowledge of God
“God has stitched into the fabric of the human mind his existence and power so that they are instinctively recognized when viewing the created world.”- Thomas Schreiner
“God is to be seen in every blade of grass, if we have but eyes to discern him.” -Charles Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers
A Person of Wisdom Can Learn From Anything
“Men generally learn wisdom if they have wisdom. The artist’s eye sees the beauty of the landscape because he has beauty in his mind. “To him that hath shall be given,” and he shall have abundance, for he shall reap a harvest even from the field that is covered with thorns and nettles…We may find instruction everywhere. To a spiritual mind nettles have their use, and weeds have their doctrine. Are not all thorns and thistles meant to be teachers to sinful men? Are they not brought forth of the earth on purpose that they may show us what sin has done, and the kind of produce that will come when we sow the seed of rebellion against God?…You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs out of the ground.” -Charles Spurgeon, Talks to Farmers
God Made Visible By His Works
“The intention of Moses in beginning his Book with the creation of the world, is, to render God, as it were, visible to us in his works.” -John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis
Wonder
“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.” -G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles
Einstein and General… Revelation
“For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God’s existence. For Einstein it was the absence of miracles that reflected divine providence. The fact that the cosmos is comprehensible, that it follows laws, is worth of awe. This is the defining quality of a ‘God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists.'” – Walter Isaacson
A Pilgrim's Theology 