Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't Quotes

“Jeremy Begbie notes that music conveys meaning in a nonrepresentational manner, unlike our other forms of communication.121 Thus, music’s power of communication is unique: “Music is the least imitative of the arts, the least reducible to other things (certainly the least translatable into verbal discourse), the least dependent on preexisting things outside itself. Music is the closest we will get in this life to creating out of nothing.”
― Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism

“That day I came across several of the so-called new atheist books: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion, Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great, and Sam Harris’s The End of Faith. I vividly remember the longing that came over me as I leafed through them. It felt like my feet finding the path again. I knew what my next adventure would be.”
― Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism

“The sorrows of this life will not be simply concluded or even washed away from memory; rather, for those who reap the benefits of Jesus’s resurrection, those sorrows will be transformed into something glorious and beautiful.”
― Gavin Ortlund, Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't: The Beauty of Christian Theism