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John Polkinghorne

"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe."

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Vera Miles

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

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Vera Miles

"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."

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Vera Miles

"Failure is only an experience. We learn from trials and errors."

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Vera Miles

"You've probably heard it before-if not, you've likely experienced it yourself."

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Vera Miles

"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."

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Vera Miles

"Pathology can indeed evoke experiences of Absolute Godliness, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. They can also occur due to disturbance in the geomagnetic field of our planet, consumption of psychedelics, excruciatingly extreme level of stress during a near- death situation, or ultimately through a natural and healthy procedure of meditation or/and prayer."

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Vera Miles

"Mistakes Are Life's Lectures You Didn't Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them....Pay Attention And Learn From Them."

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Vera Miles

"Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone, each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together."

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Vera Miles

"The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth."

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"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."

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John Polkinghorne
"However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature."

Life

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John Polkinghorne
"I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years."

Science

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John Polkinghorne
"Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything."

God

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John Polkinghorne
"The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth."

Life

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

God

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John Polkinghorne
"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."

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John Polkinghorne
"Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history."

Age

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John Polkinghorne
"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation."

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John Polkinghorne
"Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."

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John Polkinghorne
"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe."

Life

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