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“The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions for fear of revealing their doubts or being thought of as strange. There is an implicit conspiracy of silence on religious matters in the churches. This conspiracy covers up the fact that the churches do not change lives or influence conduct to any appreciable degree.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.”
― Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.”
― Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes