Harry Blamires Quotes

#1. Being a jerk is more of a habit or a personality trait of sorts, not an attitude. It's incurable.

Cameron Jace

#2. You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.

Harry Blamires

#3. The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.

Harry Blamires

#4. If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

Harry Blamires

#5. The wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor? ... You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of other things, but of God.

Harry Blamires

#6. The Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

Harry Blamires

#7. The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.

Harry Blamires

#8. Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

Patrick Ness

#9. A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing.

John McPhee

#10. Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Do we as Christians mentally inhabit the world presented to us by faith as the real world?

Harry Blamires

#12. To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.

Dennis Miller

#13. May God even yet deliver us from the sin of loyalty!

Harry Blamires

#14. I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

Tullian Tchividjian

#15. There is no longer a Christian mind.

Harry Blamires

#16. I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#18. There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

Harry Blamires

#19. We twentieth-century Christians have chosen the way of compromise. We withdraw our Christian consciousness from the fields of public, commercial, and social life. When we enter these fields we are compelled to accept, for purposes of discussion, the secular frame of reference.

Harry Blamires

#20. Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

Jerry Spinelli

#21. The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

Harry Blamires

#22. When we're passionate about something, we have a positive attitude and embrace each day with a new outlook.

Deepak Chopra

#23. The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

Harry Blamires

#24. Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

Billy Graham