Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more important to do so.
Wise men still seek Him today.
Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
To be the best you have to beat the best
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.
I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.