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An open mind
By:George
Date: Friday, 10 February 2006, 10:44 pm
In Response To: Change in thinking (bobbym)

We could all be totally wrong.

I applaud your openness, so don't take this personally: I read something today that I liked, that G.K. Chesterton said about an open mind (quoted in "For All God's Worth", by N.T. Wright):

"The purpose of an open mind is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid."

Wright goes on: "Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation."

I wish you the best in your re-examination of things in a new light.

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