Quotes from Finding God at Harvard

How is civilization changes. By the creation of fellowships which eventually become infectious to the entire cultural order. These ancient believers were accused of turning the world upside down.--
Elton Trueblood

There are men who cry, "Do not think, for it is dangerous. Against them Christ is always crying, "No, live your fullest."--
Phiilips Brooks

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer.
You yourself are the answer.
Before your face questions die away.
CS Lewis, Till We Have Faces

For God, it is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. That love begins at home, right here. Holiness is not the luxury of a few; it is a simple duty for you and me.--
Mother Teresa

What else can save us but your hand remaking what you have made.--
Augustine

You could not wish to be born at a better time than when all is lost--
Simone Weil

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.--
Sir Isaac Newton

The great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there--
Henri Nouwen

Good news and intolerance are mutually inconsistent--
Habib Malik

Q: What is your only confort in life or death?
A: That I am not my own but belong to my faithful savior Jesus Christ.--
Heidelburg Cathechism, Question 1

How little people know who think that holiness is dull--
CS Lewis

We must at all times remember what intellectuals habitually forget: that people matter more than concepts and must come first. The worst of all despotisms is the tyranny of ideas.--
Paul Johnson

With the drawing of this Love, and the Voice of this Calling,
we shall not cease from exploration
and at the end of our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
adn know the place for the first time--
T.S. Eliot