Bauckham Richard Quotes & Sayings

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place — Ben Richards

Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case. — Gonjasufi

The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness. — Richard Bauckham

Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known. — Peter Johnston

You just have to know what the right laws are under the right circumstances, and design the device with the correct laws. You cannot expect old designs to work in new circumstances. But new designs can work in new circumstances ... — Richard Feynman

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there. — Jonathan Tropper

It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends. — NoViolet Bulawayo

This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names. — Richard Bauckham

Testimony should be treated as reliable until proved otherwise. "First, trust the word of others, then doubt if there are good reasons for doing so. — Richard Bauckham

[Jesus'] resurrection is therefore God's promise of new creation for the whole of the godforsaken reality which the crucified Jesus represents. It is therefore an event of dialectical promise: it opens up a qualitatively new future, which negates all the negatives of present experience. It opens up a future which is not simply drawn out of the immanent possibilities of present reality, but radically contradicts present reality. It promises life for the dead, righteousness for the unrighteous, freedom for those in bondage. — Richard Bauckham

When the slaughtered Lamb is seen 'in the midst of' the divine throne in heaven (5:6; cf. 7:17), the meaning is that Christ's sacrificial death belongs to the way God rules the world. — Richard Bauckham