Navajo  folk saying.

Beauty is before me.
Beauty is behind me.
Beauty is below me. /
Beauty is above me.
     I walk in beauty.

in:  Sigurd F. Olson, Runes of the North (H????, Knopf, 1963) pp. 14-15.

BEAUTY

n.d.

Napier, Davie.

There is of course absurdity in every act of faith.

Word of God, Word of Earth.  (PH232, ) p. 29.

ABSURDITY; FAITH

19831100

Needleman, Jacob.

Sacred art may be defined as art that evokes and supports an inner movement towards contact with a greater reality.  But it cannot do this automatically; it requires that we bring something of ourselves to it.

"Forward,"

IN:  Temple, Richard.  Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity, new ed.  (FIUGL, Luzar Oriental Ltd, 2001; orig. pub. 1990) p. x.

ART - CHRISTIAN; ART, RELIGIOUS; CHRISTIANITY; PARTICIPATION; REALITY

20040525

Nelson, Milo.

But in spite of what would be considered a high degree of public visibility, the interest of our public is less in librarians than in the institution itself--the library.

"The Lights in library Schools are [sic] Going Out One by One,"

Information Today.  (Nov., 1993), p. 49.

LIBRARIES; LIBRARIANS; PROFESSION VS INSTITUTION

19931115

Neumann, Erich.

However, community and freedom are not best proclaimed by atom bombs; nor can freedom and individuality be established by the monolithic state.

Depth Psychology and a New Ethic.  (FIUGL, Putnam, 1969, 1949), p. 19.

COMMUNITY; FREEDOM; INDIVIDUALITY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; STATE, THE

20051020

Neville, Robert Cummings.

Reality is the measure of our interpretations , and in religious matters therefore the infinite is the measure of our finite symbols.

The Truth of Broken Symbols.  (FIUL, SUNY Press, 1996) p. xii.

INFINITE; INTERPRETATIONS; REALITY; SYMBOLS

20031101

By existential I mean that theology is not only a representation of the divine but a representation shaped by the life situations of the theologians or religious community within which theology might work

The Truth of Broken Symbols.  (FIUL, SUNY Press, 1996) p. xiv.

EXISTENTIAL - DEFINITIONS; THEOLOGY, EXISTENTIAL

20031214

As generic, religious symbols include myths and religious narratives, theological ideas, particular notions such as karma or sin which are defined in one or more symbol systems, the symbols systems as such, religious acts such as liturgies or private meditations that move through and overlay various symbol systems, as well as architectural and artistic symbols with religious content, books, songs, devotional objects and the like--anything that can be referred to as a religious object and can bear a religious meaning.

The Truth of Broken Symbols.  (FIUL, SUNY Press, 1996) p. xxii.

DOCTRINE; SCRIPTURES & RELIGIOUS WRITINGS; SYMBOLS, RELIGIOUS; THEOLOGY

20031214

A study of religious symbols needs to acknowledge two traits of the subject matter.  One is that the use of religious symbols is an activity of interpretation, a semiotic process.  Religious symbols are supposed to symbolize something.... The other trait is that religious symbols are supposed to be instruments of transformation, of shaping religious, familial, and other communities, / of leading the soul to greater perfection, or the person to enlightenment, or to attunement.

The Truth of Broken Symbols.  (FIUL, SUNY Press, 1996) p. 2.

INTERPRETATIONS; SYMBOLS, RELIGIOUS - DEFINITIONS; TRANSFORMATIONS

20040115

Niebuhr, H. Richard.

We express it [faith] in our religion, to be sure; but also in all our other social decisions, actions, and institutions.  Furthermore, our whole culture is involved in a conflict of faiths that is distinctly different from the collisions among religions or between religion and irreligion.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 11.

CULTURES; CONFLICTS; FAITH; IRRELIGION; RELIGION; RELIGIONS

19860000

Bare sense experience unmixed with rational elements is inaccessble to us; reason forms and interprets sense experience; experience validates or invalidates such experience-filled reasoning.  In roughly analogous manner reason permeates the activity of faith; it organizes, compares, reflects, criticizes, and develops hypotheses in the midst of believing.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 13.

EXPERIENCES; FAITH; REASON; VALIDATION

19860000

His [the theologian's] task is work of reason in the context of / faith.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), pp. 14-15.

FAITH; REASON; THEOLOGIANS - TASKS

19860000

When we reason as theologians we undertake to define ideas  of God, forms  of faith, notions  of the soul, theories  of salvation.  To reason so oriented and employing such instruments there is something animistic, prelogical, or mythological in all speech and thinking that use personal pronouns as ultimate terms of reference.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 45.

FAITH; GOD; MYTHOLOGY; PERSONAL vs IMPERSONAL CATEGORIES; SALVATION; SOUL; THEOLOGY, REASONING IN

19860227

Yet there is something in our human existence, in our world, with our companions and in ourselves that cannot be denied yet cannot be understood with the aid of impersonal categories.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 45.

OBJECTIVITY; SUBJECTIVITY - THEOLOGY

19860227

Liable to error as a subject dealing with objects, he is also liable to deception as self dealing with selves; able to know the truth about things he is at the same time able to keep truth with companions or deceive them.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 46.

DECEPTIONS; ERRORS; LIES; OBJECTIVITY - THEOLOGY; SOULS; SUBJECTIVITY - THEOLOGY; THEOLOGIANS; TRUTH

19860227

Freedom implies the presence of the assurance that there is a kind of universal government of things, not only of material entities, on which nations as well as individuals can depend.  If may, of course, be said that the confidence present in democracies which accord large measures of freedom to their / citizens is confidence in the people.  But confidence in the people cannont be the basis of freedom if it is believed that the people are always self-interested and can be counted upon only to pursue their private ends.  If this were the belief then every care would need to be taken to prevent the individual citizen from defrauding one another; little freedom could be allowed.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), pp. 67-68.

CITIZENS - RESPONSIBILITIES; DEMOCRACIES; FREEDOM; GOVERNMENT; MOTIVATIONS; TRUST

19860302

If there is no faithfulness at all among the people to an ideal or cause of truth, or if truth cannot be counted upon in the nature of things to conquer the lie, freedom of speech and of press is a luxury no commonwealth can long afford.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 68.

FAITHFULNESS;FREEDOM OF SPEECH; FREEDOM OF THE PRESS; LIES; TRUTH

19860302

The point at which Protestants begin their analysis of the problem of God is that of practical human faith in deity.  Such faith may be described in various ways, but it is never correctly described where it is initially defined in terms of intellectual belief.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (PK019), p. 116.

FAITH - DEFINITIONS; PROTESTANTISM

19860307

Niebuhr, Reinhold.

O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

in:  Wright, H. Norman. Communication:  Key to Your Marriage (PH48, 197?), p. 130.

CHANGE; COURAGE; SERENITY; WISDOM

19840715

(See: Oetinger, C. F. for a similar statement.)

Actually the authority of the Gospel is not derived from the power, prestige, or authority of the church.  On the contrary, the authority of the church is derived from the gospel.

Essays in Applied Christianity (MHCL, ), p. 280.

AUTHORITY; CHURCH; GOSPEL, THE

19730000

The will of God is the norm, the life of Christ is the revelation of that will, and the individual faces the awful responsibility of seeking to do God's will amidst all the complexities of human existence with no other authoritative norm but the ultimate one.

Nature and Destiny of Man (MHCL, Scribners, 1964), p. 60.

CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITIES; CHRISTIANITY - STANDARDS; GOD'S WILL; JESUS THE CHRIST

19740000

Yet no cumulation of contradictory evidence seems to disturb modern man's good opinion of himself.

Nature and Destiny of Man (MHCL, Scribners, 1964), p. 96.

GOOD & EVIL; MAN, MODERN; OPINION; OPTIMISM; SELF CONCEPT

19740000

Niebuhr, Richard R.

Pilgrims are persons in motion—passing through territories not their own—seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

"Pioneers and Pilgrims,"

In:  Parabola, (IX:3; Fall, 1984) p. 7.

CLARITY; COMPLETION; DIRECTIONS; PILGRIMS - DEFINITIONS; SEEKING & SEEKERS; SPIRITUAL YEARNING

20050801

Though we are born into families, we all must become what Melville's Ishmael calls isolatoes, islanders, and hence creatures perpetually searching for passages that promise approach to another shore—a shore that will complete us.

"Pioneers and Pilgrims,"

In:  Parabola, (IX:3; Fall, 1984) p. 10.

COMPLETION; FAMILIES; ISOLATOES; ISLANDERS; PASSES & PASSAGES; SEEKING; SHORES

20050801

Nielsen, Jakob.

Currently, the minimum goal for response times should therefore be to get pages to users in no more than 10 seconds, because that's the limit of people's ability to keep their attention focused while waiting.

Designing Web Usability (PP349, 2000) p. 42.

RESPONSE TIME - WEB

20000309

The one-second response time limit is required for users to feel that they are moving freely through the information space.  Staying below the 10-second limit is required for users to keep their attention on the task.

Designing Web Usability (PP349, 2000) p. 48.

RESPONSE TIME - WEB

20000309

Nietzsche, Friedrich.

As soon as you feel yourself against me  you have ceased to understand my position and consequently my arguments!  You have to be the victim of the same passion!

Quoted by Hollingdale, R. J., "Introduction",

Thus Spake Zarathustra (PK233, ) p. 11.

DEBATES; PASSIONS; UNDERSTANDING

19840420

I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul; I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.

Quoted by Hollingdale, R. J., "Introduction",

Thus Spake Zarathustra (PK233, ) p. 12.

INTELLECTUAL PROBLEMS; WRITING

19840000

Noll, Mark A.

In the mid-eighteenth century, republicanism meant a distrust of centralized political power, a commitment to checks and balances in government, a fear of political enslavement and belief in an interlocking relationship between liberty, law and natural rights.

The Rise of Evangelicalism (RAP, IVP, 2003) p. 185.

CHECKS & BALANCES; GOVERNMENT; LAW; LIBERTY; POLITICS; REPUBLICANISM; RIGHTS, NATURAL

20050607

And while the distrust of establishments has liberated many evangelicals from a thralldom to meaningless forms, it has also deprived them of the benefits of intergenerational intellectual nurture.

The Rise of Evangelicalism (RAP, IVP, 2003) p. 258.

CHRISTIANS, AMERICAN; ESTABLISHMENTS; EVANGELICALS; NURTURE; RITUALS; TRADITIONS

20050612

...the heart of evangelicalism was the quest for True Religion—what it was, how to obtain it, why it was often obscured, what to do with it.

The Rise of Evangelicalism (RAP, IVP, 2003) p. 262.

EVANGELICALISM; QUESTS; RELIGION, TRUE

20050614

Norris, Kathleen

Repentance is valuable because it opens in us the idea of change.

The Cloister Walk (NY: Putnam & Sons, 1996), pp. 165-6.

In:  Crosby, Cindy.  By Willoway Brook (HQ279, Paraclete Pr., 2003) p. 42.

CHANGE; REPENTANCE

20040327

Northrop, F. S. C.

If one wants to get pure facts he must go not to physicists or to chemists or to engineers, but to impressionistic painters.  They give us the pure qualities, just the impressions, not the objects we infer from them....

The Nature of Creative Thinking (n.d.), p. 17.

in:  Raudsepp, Eugene.  How to Create New Ideas (1982) p. 42.

CHEMISTS; ENGINEERS; FACTS; IMPRESSIONISM; PAINTING; PHYSICISTS

19870707

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