| | * "It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan." - [[Calvin Coolidge]], speech, Jul. 25, 1924 <ref>Coolidge, Calvin (July 25, 1924). [http://archive.org/stream/foundationsofrep00unit#page/66/mode/2up "What it means to be a Boy Scout"]. ''Foundations of the Republic'' (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press), p. 68. Retrieved on May 27, 2015 from Internet Archive. Quote found by www.notable-quotes.com</ref> | | * "It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan." - [[Calvin Coolidge]], speech, Jul. 25, 1924 <ref>Coolidge, Calvin (July 25, 1924). [http://archive.org/stream/foundationsofrep00unit#page/66/mode/2up "What it means to be a Boy Scout"]. ''Foundations of the Republic'' (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press), p. 68. Retrieved on May 27, 2015 from Internet Archive. Quote found by www.notable-quotes.com</ref> |
| − | * "Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?" - [[John Updike]] <ref>http://www.just-quotes.com/atheism_quotes.html</ref> | + | * "Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity...of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?" - [[John Updike]] <ref>Updike, John (1989). ''Self-Consciousness: Memoirs'' (New York, NY: Knopf), ch. 4.</ref> |
| | * "Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing" <ref>[http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:FWF-izzSMg4J:www.apologetics.com/default.jsp%3Fbodycontent%3D/articles/theistic_apologetics/kreeft-arguments.html+potentiality+to+actual+existence+except&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us], http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:FWF-izzSMg4J:www.apologetics.com/default.jsp%3Fbodycontent%3D/articles/theistic_apologetics/kreeft-arguments.html+potentiality+to+actual+existence+except&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us, </ref> - [[St. Thomas Aquinas]] | | * "Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing" <ref>[http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:FWF-izzSMg4J:www.apologetics.com/default.jsp%3Fbodycontent%3D/articles/theistic_apologetics/kreeft-arguments.html+potentiality+to+actual+existence+except&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us], http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:FWF-izzSMg4J:www.apologetics.com/default.jsp%3Fbodycontent%3D/articles/theistic_apologetics/kreeft-arguments.html+potentiality+to+actual+existence+except&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=27&gl=us, </ref> - [[St. Thomas Aquinas]] |