Julius Charles Hare Quotes

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

Theology is a subject without an object

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.