“Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.”— Peter Straub Related Quotes “I’d start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.”— Robert Lane Greene “Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.”— Marty Rubin “Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.”— Brennan Manning