https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/ Essays, poems, journal fragments, sayings, reflections, and voices. en Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:29:02 -0400 https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/for-this-very-reason-make-every-effort/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/for-this-very-reason-make-every-effort/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; a... https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/william-james/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/william-james/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 As for me, my bed is made: I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing through https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/william-barclay/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/william-barclay/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 When we speak for Christ we must speak as if Christ is listening -- as indeed he is. --William Barclay https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/virginia-woolf-a-room-of-one-s-own/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/virginia-woolf-a-room-of-one-s-own/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Imaginatively she is of the highest significance, practically she is completely insignificant. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/tripp-york/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/tripp-york/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The hope of the Christian is to worship God in such a way that attracts others to God. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/timothy-snyder/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/timothy-snyder/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Post-truth is pre-fascism. –Timothy Snyder https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/steven-pressfield-the-war-of-art/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/steven-pressfield-the-war-of-art/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know i https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/stellan-ohlsson/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/stellan-ohlsson/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The psychology of thinking encounters several perennial problems... Perennial problems are rarely solved. Instead, they serve as loci for the accumulation of knowledge. Each genera https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/starfish-story/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/starfish-story/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 A man walking down the beach sees a young boy picking up something and gently tossing it into the ocean. When the man asks what he's doing, the boy replies that he's tossing starfi https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/spoke-into-the-wheel/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/spoke-into-the-wheel/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 "We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself." https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/spiritual-growth/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/spiritual-growth/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Spiritual growth is the result of coming face to face with our own situation, feeling the brunt of our own puzzlement, recognizing no recipe will apply completely, and then trustin https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/seeing-jesus/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/seeing-jesus/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Our first responsibility is to be revived ourselves, and to have a testimony that we have come to the end of our struggle and that we have found Jesus himself as all we need. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rush-holt/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rush-holt/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 This election is said to have been about rejecting the political establishment. We cannot let that mean rejecting established facts. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/ronald-beiner/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/ronald-beiner/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Looking back on that conversation today, I cannot help but wonder whether my more hopeful view of the discipline and its intellectual achievements was just a conceit of youth, and https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/roland-barthes/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/roland-barthes/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 ... https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rilke-letters-to-a-young-poet/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rilke-letters-to-a-young-poet/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. --Rilke. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rick-rubin/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rick-rubin/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The best work is the work you are excited about. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rene-descartes/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rene-descartes/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Thanks be to God, I did not find myself in a condition which obliged me to make a merchandise of science for the improvement of my fortune. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/reinhold-niebuhr/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/reinhold-niebuhr/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The vantage point from which man judges his insignificance is a very significant vantage point. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rainer-maria-rilke/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/rainer-maria-rilke/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/psalm-65/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/psalm-65/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Praise awaits you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/proverbs-25-2/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/proverbs-25-2/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/proverbs-19-2123/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/proverbs-19-2123/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 What a man desires is unfailing love. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/poincare/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/poincare/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 To doubt everything or to believe everything are equally good solutions–both dispense with the necessity of reflection. –Poincare https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/oscar-wilde-de-profundis/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/oscar-wilde-de-profundis/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/miroslav-krleza-on-the-edge-of-reason/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/miroslav-krleza-on-the-edge-of-reason/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Had I not come to a turn in this account that could be described as a fatal one, according to a mysterious law of human folly, in all probability I would have spent my whole life o https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/mircea-cartarescu/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/mircea-cartarescu/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 In capitalism, man exploits man. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/leszek-kolakowski/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/leszek-kolakowski/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The patterns are always the same: the great socialist revolution consists, first of all, in giving us privileges, titles and power for our political opinions and in destroying the https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/kerry-ann-rockquemore-monday-motivator/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/kerry-ann-rockquemore-monday-motivator/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Most importantly, we must develop our own internal system of value, measures of quality, and definition of success. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/karl-ove-knausgaard-wolves-of-eternity/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/karl-ove-knausgaard-wolves-of-eternity/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 "Why are you reading when you don't have to?" Sevoshka would often say to me Alevtina whenever I sat down with a book on some subject or other that was completely alien to him. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/karl-barth-the-humanity-of-god/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/karl-barth-the-humanity-of-god/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The Gift of Freedom. Foundation of Evangelical Ethics. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/journaling-is/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/journaling-is/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Writing from the place of knowing that I am loved. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/john-mayer-split-screen-sadness/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/john-mayer-split-screen-sadness/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 'Cause I can't wait to figure out what's wrong with me So I can say this is the way that I used to be Songwriters: John Clayton Mayer Split Screen Sadness lyrics Reach Music Publis https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/john-16-33/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/john-16-33/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/johann-von-goethe/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/johann-von-goethe/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/j-p-stern-on-canetti/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/j-p-stern-on-canetti/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 To conclude that Canetti's use in his book Crowd's and Power of the method of philosophical anthropology is uncritical – that is, unphilosophical – is to advert to the fact that at https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/isaiah-50-4/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/isaiah-50-4/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/hope/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/hope/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/h-l-mencken/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/h-l-mencken/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." –H. L. Mencken https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/groucho-marx/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/groucho-marx/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/gabriel-chevallier-fear/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/gabriel-chevallier-fear/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 "Most rules lie, yet lies are less shocking, less corrosive than the chosen, cultivated ignorance that Chevallier addresses here. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/fyodor-dostoevsky-the-brothers-karamazov/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/fyodor-dostoevsky-the-brothers-karamazov/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 “Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head—that is, these nerves are there in the brain... damn them! there are sort of little tails, the little tails of those nerves, and as soo https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/friedrich-nietzsche/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/friedrich-nietzsche/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in u https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/frederick-douglass/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/frederick-douglass/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference–so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure and holy is of neces https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/frederick-buechner-2/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/frederick-buechner-2/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet. –Frederick Buechner https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/edward-o-wilson/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/edward-o-wilson/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The final decisive edge enjoyed by scientific naturalism will come from its capacity to explain traditional religion, its chief competitor, as a wholly material phenomena. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/earl-biddle/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/earl-biddle/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 It is to be expected that scientific explanations of human behavior in purely materialistic terms will be met by opposition, not only by the clergy, but by everyone concerned about https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/david-carradine/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/david-carradine/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/darpa-broad-agency-announcement/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/darpa-broad-agency-announcement/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of new simulation capabilities to test th https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/czeslaw-milosz-the-captive-mind/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/czeslaw-milosz-the-captive-mind/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Who can gaze indifferently at the suffering of people whose only sin was that they blocked the path of historical processes? To lull his conscience he resorts to the thesis that a https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/charles-whitfield-healing-the-child-within/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/charles-whitfield-healing-the-child-within/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 One reason is that the mother herself is so impoverished and needy that she uses her infant to satisfy her own unmet needs. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/blaise-pascal/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/blaise-pascal/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The heart has reasons which reason does not know. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/blaise-pascal-2/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/blaise-pascal-2/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 It is not certain that all is uncertain—to the glory of skepticism. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/baruch-spinoza/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/baruch-spinoza/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/arn-anderson/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/arn-anderson/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 I'm both a professor and student, because if you are no longer a student, you don't have the right to call yourself a professor. https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/albert-schweitzer/ https://gregconradismith.github.io/room-for-god-and-others/voices/albert-schweitzer/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 With the spirit of the age I am in complete disagreement, because it is filled with a disdain for thinking.