Vern Poythress Quotes

#1. The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

Bernard Hopkins

#2. Contrary to secularist myth, science in practice is innately and irrepressibly religious: it serves either God or idolatry. But one of the features of idolatry is deceit. In this case, idolatry conceals from itself that it is idolatry.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#3. The beauty of scientific laws shows the beauty of God himself.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#4. Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#5. I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

Vern Poythress

#6. We need the Holy Spirit to change our hearts if we are going to be willing to come to God and hear his word submissively.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#7. But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#8. Letting the Bible speak for itself, that is, letting it speak in its own terms, includes letting the Bible speak from within its own worldview rather than merely our own.

Vern Poythress

#9. Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#11. I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Isaac Asimov

#12. Scientific investigation, narrowly conceived, does not prove materialism. Rather, materialism arises from confusing two distinct moves: (1) the narrow scientific strategy of focusing on what is material and (2) the claim that the narrow focus is all that there is.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#13. God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

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#14. If it happens, I'll be proud, and it would be a dream come true, though I doubt I ever thought I'd be a Hall of Famer when I started. It wasn't until late in my career that people started to mention it, and you start thinking about it a little bit.

Tom Glavine

#15. There is an obvious disconnect between someone's claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#16. Tim Keller observes, "We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."3

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#17. I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#18. In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

Ben Elliot

#19. People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, why people do not find the Bible's claims acceptable.

Vern Sheridan Poythress