Jeremy Begbie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Christians are a polyphonic people.
-- Jeremy Begbie

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One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.
-- Jeremy Begbie

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Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.
-- Jeremy Begbie

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Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most dangerous feature of our Church and culture-and the sentimental air is never thicker than at Christmas. The Incarnation is messy, dirty, and resonates with the crucifixion. We need a new wave of carol writing that can gradually swill out the nonsense and catch the piercing, joy-through-pain refrains of the New Testament.
-- Jeremy Begbie

#Pain #Dirty #Writing
In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.
-- Jeremy Begbie

#Theatre #Lines #Postmodern
This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.
-- Jeremy Begbie

#Heart #Imagination #Delight

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

Jeremy Begbie famous quotes

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