Michael J. Knowles Quotes

I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

Richard Crossman ... has a gift, which is useful to teaching but fatal to politics, uncontrolled imagination. There is no side of an argument that he cannot see, and he can well argue that black is white. Once his mind starts working it runs away with him, and he is able to persuade himself of the truth of what he wants to hear. At the same time, with the arrogance of the intellectual, he suggests that anyone who disagrees with him is little more than an idiot.

When I spoke of the Progressive party as having a lunatic fringe, I specifically had you in mind!

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most.

Alien ideas are just as dangerous to us as the aliens themselves, no matter how plausible.

I couldn't read the way that other students read, so I would just cheat, which, in my silly brain, I was like, 'This is a skill that I'm developing - how to just get around everything!'

I don't think of 'heretic' as a pejorative term - necessarily.

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

Anything you spend a long time on, of course it would be nice if everyone likes it. But I think the strength that we've got is that we always concentrate on what we want it to be like and not really trying to please other people.

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.