Echoes of a Voice Quotes

“all theisms—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—the difference between the self and God is radical. Pride is the fundamental sin of human beings.”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“The New Age operates on the epistemology of ecstasy.”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“So into this history of the growing pluralism of Western worldviews came the New Age movement whose central thesis is simple: The individual self is the center of reality: The self is the really real. Immanence replaces Transcendence.”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“Atoms dead could never thus Stir the human heart of us Unless the beauty that we see The veil of endless beauty be, Filled full of spirits that have trod Far hence along the heavenly sod And seen the bright footprints of God.175”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God to be a direct perception of God’s existence, one unmediated by reason, by revelation, by society, or by psychological need.”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“The term numinous is like the terms substance, meaning, being, and a host of other terms; in the final analysis we can only define them in terms of themselves.”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone

“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how”
― James W Sire, Echoes of a Voice: We Are Not Alone