Quotes from Kenneth Lee Pike

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.