"The image of keys (plural) perhaps suggests not so much the porter, who controls admission to the house, as the steward, who regulates its administration (Is 22:22, in conjunction with 22:15). The issue then is not that of admission to the church (which is not what the kingdom of heaven means; see pp. 45-47) but an authority derived from a delegation of God's sovereignty."

-- Craig S. Keener

#Mean Quotes #Keys Quotes #Issues Quotes

“I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.”
“The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.”
“God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.”

Source : "Words of Ecstasy in Sufism". Book by Carl W. Ernst, p. 45, 1985.
“Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.”
“If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.”
“At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.”

Source : Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.277
“No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.”

Source : "'I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis': an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurle, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

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