Acontextual Quotes & Sayings

Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair. — Pamela H. Hansen

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion. — Dada Bhagwan

The loss of connection between churches and neighborhoods creates a corresponding loss of localized imagination and creates an addictive-like dependence on acontextual experts who scan the physical and spiritual horizon for 'success. — Tim Keel

We dont study philosophy, we rather do it. — William F. Lawhead

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful. — Kurt Vonnegut

David Brooks's The Social Animal. I recommend chapters 3 through 9, which give a far richer account than what I think about the subject. — Mark M. Weber

Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist. — Cornel West

Spirituality is not about how far up the mountain we get but how many we take with us. — Earnie Larsen