Search results
Face of God Quotes. “Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead.
- Roger Scruton
- 2012
EDDIE: What's so funny? LOWRI: Her face. Oh, my God, her face. IFOR: Best one yet, that was. His herald. I loved that bit. ENID: It's racist, my dear, to be blunt. People come from outside, they think we're all witches and druids. For God's sake, child, you walked into a piece of string. Can I stand you a pint, Eddie? EDDIE: Don't mind if I do.
Mar 13, 2003 · You know the part in High Flight where it talks about putting out your hand to touch the face of God? Well, when we’re at speed and altitude in the SR, we have to slow down and descend in order to do that. Lt. Col. Gil Bertelson, SR-71 pilot, in SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales and Legends, 2002.
May 5, 2013 · The Face of God, by Roger Scruton(Review)-- What blocks our recognition of the world and ourselves as gifts of a transcendent God is, above all, our fear of being accountable: for ourselves, for others, for the earth, and to God.
Jan 24, 2020 · IN HIS book Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a life (2006), Roger Scruton described how he regained his religion. He found himself playing the organ for evensong at his parish church and reflecting on the Jubilate Deo .
The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures. £12.00. SKU: RG6423523656. Out of stock. Bloomsbury (2012) Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness.
Mar 1, 2012 · Scruton quotes C.S. Lewis that friends stand side-by-side, while lovers are face-to-face. How true. Scruton entitles one chapter as “The Face of the Earth,” wherein Scruton discusses sacred places and events.
