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Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3) QUOTES

Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3) QUOTES

1 " Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions. "

― Alvin Plantinga , Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3)

2 " Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines. "

― Alvin Plantinga , Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3)

3 " De jure objections are arguments of claims to the effect that Christian belief, whether or not true, is at any rate unjustifiable, or rationally unjustified, or irrational, or not intellectually respectable, or contrary to sound morality, or without sufficient evidence, or in some other way rationally unacceptable, not up to snuff from an intellectual point of view. "

― Alvin Plantinga , Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3)

4 " In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.) "

― Alvin Plantinga , Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3)

5 " Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin concur on the claim that there is a kind of natural knowledge of God (and anything on which Calvin and Aquinas are in accord is something to which we had better pay careful attention). "

― Alvin Plantinga , Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3)

6 " One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose. "

― Alvin Plantinga , Warranted Christian Belief (Warrant, #3)