"The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch contributes much to intertestamental views of angels, heaven, judgment, resurrection, and the Messiah. This book has left its stamp upon many of the NT writers, especially the author of Revelation."

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Source : Craig A. Evans (2005). “Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature”, Hendrickson Publishers

Craig A. Evans

#Book Quotes #Angel Quotes #Views Quotes

“I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed,”
“No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.”
“I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.”
“A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”
“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.”
“The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.266, Pan Macmillan
“I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.”

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