"We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the stuff we want to call "too weird" because of our own intellectual sensibilities. The truth is they are not. So we come up with interpretations to eliminate the weirdness of the biblical worldview that makes us uncomfortable. Problem solved!"

-- Michael S. Heiser

#Biblical Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.”

Source : Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.316, Bantam
“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”
“What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.”

Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute
“She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors had OD'd on the pavement.”
“Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.”
“I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.”
“A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.”
“I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.”

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