"Where we go wrong is that we bring along some ready-made idea of God, wherever we may have learned it, and then try to make Jesus Christ fit in with that idea of God. But if we take the idea of a revelation of God in Christ seriously, then we must be willing to have our understanding of God corrected and even revolutionized by what we learn in Jesus Christ."

-- John Macquarrie

#Jesus Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.”
“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”
“Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the ***** into law”

Source : Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd
“Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.”
“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.”
“we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.”
“Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.”

Source : 1983 In Book of theMonth Club News, Jun.
“To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God.”

You may also like:

Emil Brunner
Gu Cheng
Poet
John Baillie
Theologian
John Polkinghorne
Physicist
Karl Rahner
Theologian
Mark Akenside
Poet
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
Paul Tillich
Philosopher
Rudolf Bultmann