The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.
In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.
I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?
I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.
Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance. " Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the principality warring against the great transfer of wealth to the Church. You must war against this spirit to see your inheritance released. Claim Jeremiah 51:44 (Bel in this verse is Baal).
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.