Quotes (Entire course)

Question 1

Heraclitus on change in the world

Answer 1

‘It’s impossible to step in the same river twice’

Question 2

Augustine on evil

Answer 2

“All evil is either sin or a punishment for sin”

Question 3

Nietzsche on the soul making process

Answer 3

“What does not kill me makes me stronger”

Question 4

Ivan (Dostoevsky’s character) on the Problem of Evil?

Answer 4

“If everyone must suffer, in order to buy eternal harmony with their suffering, pray tell me what children have to do with it?”

Question 5

Kant on the hypothetical imperative

Answer 5

“If the action is good only as a means to something else, the imperative is hypothetical”

Question 6

Kant quote on the formula of the law of nature?

Answer 6

“Act only according to that maxim by which you could at the same time will it become a universal law”

Question 7

Kant on the formula of the end in itself?

Answer 7

“Always treat persons, whether others or in yourself, always as an end, never merely as a means”

Question 8

Kant on duty

Answer 8

“ought implies can”

Question 9

Paul on the body?

Answer 9

“The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory”

Question 10

Matthew (19:26)

Answer 10

“With God all things are possible”

Question 11

Revelation 21:4

Answer 11

“death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying nor pain.”

Question 12

Luke 23:43

Answer 12

“Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise”

Question 13

John 1:14

Answer 13

“the word was made flesh”

Question 14

Catechism on purgatory

Answer 14

“the state of those who die in God’s friendship, assured of their eternal salvation, but who still have need of purification to enter into the happiness of heaven.”

Question 15

Romans 5:5

Answer 15

“God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the holy spirit”

Question 16

Psalm 19:1

Answer 16

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands”

Question 17

Timothy 3:16

Answer 17

“All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness”

Question 18

John Calvin on Sensus Divinitas

Answer 18

“There is within the human mind and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity”

Question 19

Psalm 8:9

Answer 19

“How majestic is your name in all the earth!”

Question 20

Psalm 8:3

Answer 20

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars

Question 21

Romans 1:21

Answer 21

“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their hearts darkened.”

Question 22

Calvin and order in the universe

Answer 22

“This skilful ordering of the universe is for us a sort of mirror in which we can contemplate God who is otherwise invisible”

Question 23

Acts 17:23

Answer 23

“you are ignorant of the very thing you worship”

Question 24

John Calvin and the beauty of the universe

Answer 24

“You cannot in one glance survey this most vast and beautiful system of the universe, its wide expanse, without being completely overwhelmed by the boundless force of its brightness”

Question 25

Catechism of the Catholic Church on true knowledge

Answer 25

“He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator”

Question 26

Dawkins and faith

Answer 26

“the great cop out”

Question 27

CS Lewis on Jesus being just a teacher of wisdom

Answer 27

“patronising nonsense” “He would either be a lunatic […] or else he would be a devil of Hell”

Question 28

Matthew 18:21

Answer 28

“I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times”

Question 29

Luke 11:39

Answer 29

“Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness”

Question 30

John 14:6

Answer 30

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”

Question 31

Catechism on miracles

Answer 31

“They bear witness that he is the son of God”

Question 32

Mark 49-50

Answer 32

“They saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. They cried out, because they all saw him and were terrified.”

Question 33

Zeffirelli on two natures

Answer 33

“Christians have no problem accepting Christ as holy, as God. But they always have problems accepting him as a human being at the same time”

Question 34

Dawkins on Jesus

Answer 34

“Jesus was a great moral teacher”

Question 35

Matthew 7:12

Answer 35

“Do unto others as you would have them do to you”

Question 36

John 8:7

Answer 36

“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

Question 37

John 13:14

Answer 37

“Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.”

Question 38

Mark 10:25

Answer 38

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”

Question 39

Matthew 26:52

Answer 39

“for all those who take up the sword will die by the sword”

Question 40

Revelation 21:8

Answer 40

“they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Question 41

David Hume and middle ground

Answer 41

“the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue”

Question 42

Matthew 25:46

Answer 42

“they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Question 43

Matthew 13:43

Answer 43

“the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father”