"The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because it suppresses the reality of the presence of God as the key to biblical understanding."

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Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

Vern Poythress

#Religious Quotes #Independent Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.”
“I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.”
“I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.”
“To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.”
“I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.”
“It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know what you look like. It's just so unbelievable to find a song that people are relating to. To have a song that people will actually pick up the phone and call the station to ask. It's a blessing.”
“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”

Source : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.
“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”

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