Andreas J. Kostenberger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or sermonically eloquent, worship that is not offered from a proper understanding of who God is falls short.
-- Andreas J. Kostenberger

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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.
I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Andreas J. Kostenberger famous quotes

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