"Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote."

-- Michael S. Heiser

#People Quotes #Church Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.”
“Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.”
“I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..”
“I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!”
“Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.”

Source : Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.498, Penguin Books India
“As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.”
“The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.”
“It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.”

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