Papadopolous Book Quotes & Sayings

As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason. — George H. Smith

Try calculating the probability of getting a call from an old friend after just thinking about them. Or, your favorite song coming on the radio just as you turn on the car. Or, you smiling at a stranger, just as they needed to receive a smile. These are the events unexplained by logic, reason, and probability, yet are the foundation and guiding principles of faith. — Charles F. Glassman

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor. — Ahmed Zewail

Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet. — Fran Lebowitz

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are. — Barack Obama

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out. — Dan Chaon

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. — John B. S. Haldane

We consume the air and we are consumed by it; we enjoy and are enjoyed. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Don't you think that I've been giving up?
Don't you think that I've been giving up?Change,
I take the blame. — Tegan Quin

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. — Joseph Stowell

Bennet was a wonderful friend and, admittedly, a wonderful specimen of a man, but she worried over his friendliness. — Charlie N. Holmberg