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John Polkinghorne Quotes: Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.
         

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.


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It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.



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I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.



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The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.



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God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.



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Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.



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Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.



Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.





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