We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
D. Elton TruebloodIt takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
D. Elton TruebloodReligion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
D. Elton TruebloodThe Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
D. Elton Trueblood