{"quotes":[{"text":"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["possibility","profundity","thought"],"id":11844,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.","author":"Owen Gingerich","tags":["life","profundity","purpose","self-consciousness","universe"],"id":34552,"author_id":"Owen+Gingerich"},{"text":"Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.","author":"Kedar Joshi","tags":["profundity","religion","science","scientists","simplicity"],"id":35136,"author_id":"Kedar+Joshi"},{"text":"But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["herman-melville","ishmael","moby-dick","profundity","society","truth"],"id":53646,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They had their problems and we have ours. God is constant but man is not, and he foreknew the ever-changing world his people would have to deal with; therefore, and if there is indeed an omniscient God, a Christ-like figure would be our only rational, possible connection to a constant, holy God throughout the evolution of culture and social law. The only answer that makes sense when it comes to relevance regarding religions and time periods is Christ, and the chances are slim that men could have invented it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absurdity","apologetics","bible","change","christ","complexity","connection","constant","culture","evolution","fickle","foreknowledge","freedom","god","holiness","holiness-of-god","humanity","jesus","jesus-christ","law","love","morality","new-testament","old-testament","profundity","rational","rules","scripture","social-law"],"id":115164,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Most of us move through life with little chance to learn much about ourselves. We know some things we like and some things we dislike, we have a few ideas about what makes us happy, and we die in ignorance regarding anything profound within ourselves.","author":"Raymond E. Feist","tags":["meaning-of-life","profundity"],"id":115280,"author_id":"Raymond+E.+Feist"},{"text":"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["alone","analysis","discoveries","greatness","intellect","intellectual-thought","profundity","solitude","solutions","work"],"id":222642,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bible","bigotry","book","christ","complexity","contradiction","damnation","existence","faith","forgiven","freedom","god","gospel","grace","hell","holiness","holiness-of-god","jesus","jesus-christ","justice","karma","law","legalism","love","mercy","morality","new-testament","old-testament","penalty","philosophy","profundity","punishment","rules","salvation","saved","saved-souls","scripture","sin","theology","vengeance"],"id":259615,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["gods","profundity"],"id":316669,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","certainty","comedy","comprehension","confidence","consideration","development","dismissal","doubt","faith","funny","funny-but-true","humility","humor","ignorance","intelligence","joke","knowledge","learning","misunderstanding","mystery","not-knowing","philosophy","pride","profound","profundity","questioning","religion","sarcasm","science","stupid","stupidity","theology","trust","uncertainty","understanding","wisdom"],"id":378455,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}