19 Quotes by David Gibson

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.

God is not being unkind to us by not sharing… the point is that we are not built to understand the big picture, precisely because we live in time and God does not. If we could see the end from the beginning, and understand how a billion lives and a thousand generations and unspeakable sorrows and untold joys are all woven into a tapestry of perfect beauty, then we would be God.

Ecclesiastes makes the… astonishing claim that living well here and now in this world depends on time travel being possible—not to us, but to God…God will retrieve every single injustice, every single time, and every single activity…Knowing that God is outside of time and sees it all and will, in the end, bring to judgement both the righteous and the wicked, stops me needing to be in control of everything that happens to me.

Short of a confession, short of someone coming forward and acknowledging that they committed the offence, I think it's hard to imagine that.

Certainly he should have removed himself immediately from the investigation at the minute that his nephew's name was raised and that was a problem.

I don't think it necessarily calls for a technical fix, but it's important for what it says about the credibility of the bishops and the confidence Catholics have in their hierarchy.

His outrage at that stage was quite palpable to anybody who had been following the case.

It does seem that somebody wants to indicate that the conclave was a more complex process than was being depicted and that Benedicts mandate was not a slam-dunk,

This summer, I've had five or six clients putting plasma TVs outside.