Omniscience, it will turn out, is by no means unique to any individual New Testament scholar: most have it, or claim to have it. We should all, however, grant that our knowledge is limited. — Professor E. P. Sanders
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. — Henry David Thoreau
At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. — Henry David Thoreau
… the untrained explorers [who] discover on almost every page connections in their subject matter where there are and can be none, and as regularly miss connections where they exist — F. C. Conybeare
Our own contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in the way or another to perverse. Think only of the media exhaustion of news: of how Nixon and even more so, Kennedy are figures from a now distant past. One is tempted to say that the very function of the news media is to relegate such recent historical experiences as rapidly as possible into the past. The informational function of the media would thus be to help us forget, to serve as the very agents and mechanism for our historical amnesia. — Fredric Jameson
I’d crawl over an acre of ‘Visual This++’ and ‘Integrated Development That’ to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. — Vance Petree, Virginia Power
You’ll find that people who celebrate you will kill you. They forget you are blood and flesh and bone. — Alex Haley
Naturally the common people don’t want war… but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. — Hermann Goering
I wasn’t alive during World War II, but I associate “the homeland” with Nazi propaganda. It’s fascistic and offensive.
[She prefers “U.S” or “America.”] — Linda Lewis
Through Natural Selection a car could turn into an airplane. Yes, it can. Why is that funny? That’s science! — Dan Barker, Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
I’m in, baby! — Jeff Paradowski
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord’s will but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumption, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved. Do not suppose that the Gospel is magnified or God glorified by going to the worldlings and telling them that they may be saved at this moment by simply accepting Christ as their Savior, while they are wedded to their idols, and their hearts are still in love with sin. If I do so I tell them a lie, pervert the Gospel , insult Christ, and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
Or Another Example: Those who heard much of Christ and his saving blood and cross in an evangelistic meeting – they became Christians! Then they heard very little of that wonderful message in the week-by-week pulpit ministry of their congregation. Instead they heard recipes as to how to conquer sin. Over and over and over. Or how to have a more intimate marriage. Or how to raise drug-free kids. Fill it in any way you want, it’s law. See, these people often gave up on Christianity and they are angry – really angry about it. And I don’t blame them really, nor should you. The church has an obligation to preach the gospel to people on a weekly basis, and deep down they somehow knew this. — Dr. Rod Rosenbladt
Thus, all I ask you is that as long as this Soviet economy is so proud, so flourishing, and yours is so rotten and so moribund – stop helping it. When has a cripple ever helped along an athlete? — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, on the United States giving foreign aid to the USSR in 1975
The yes-man is your enemy, but your friend will argue with you. — Russian proverb [Pre-KGB?]
Your people are now saying […] ‘Power, without any attempt at conciliation, will lead to a world conflict.’ But I would say that power with continual acquiescence is not power at all. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
[Referring to a criminological technology exhibit in Moscow:] The Soviet government was extremely interested in this technology and decided to purchase it. And your businessmen were quite willing to sell it. Only when a few sober voices here raised an uproar against it was this deal blocked. But you must realize how clever the KGB is. This technology didn’t have to stay two or three weeks in a Soviet building under Soviet guard. Two or three nights were enough for the KGB to examine and copy it. And if today persons are being hunted down by the best and most advanced technology, for this I can also thank your Western capitalists. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1947, when liberal thinkers and wise men of the West, who had forgotten the meaning of the word ’liberty,’ were swearing that there were no concentration camps in the Soviet Union at all, the American Federation of Labor published a map of our concentration camps, and on behalf of all the prisoners of those times, I want to thank the American workers’ movement for this. — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Preaching involves proclaiming the gospel and the preacher is a messenger, or herald of that gospel. Technically, it is not a sermon unless the preacher is explaining and applying the Bible. — Jeff Magruder, assistant professor at Southwestern Assemblies of God University