Berkouwer G C Quotes & Sayings

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. — Henri Matisse

I'd rather have it right than right now. — Gale Anne Hurd

We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land. — Kema Chikwe

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours. — Mirabel Osler

Oh, that flipped my bitch switch from meh to pure "I'm going to cut a bitch" rage. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The voice came first, then the chill across her skin. A moment later, Noah Czerny joined her, dressed as always in his navy Aglionby sweater. Joined was perhaps the wrong verb. Manifested was better. The phrase trick of the light was even more superior. Trick of the mind was the best. Because it was rare that Blue noticed the moment Noah actually appeared. It wasn't that he gently resolved into being. It was that somehow her brain rewrote the minute before to pretend that Noah had been slouching beside her all along. — Maggie Stiefvater

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics. — G. C. Berkouwer

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith. — G. C. Berkouwer

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ. — G. C. Berkouwer

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel. — G. C. Berkouwer

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.' — Seth Numrich

Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Thrice, to the mighty heave-ho of his invisible tossers, he would fly up in this fashion, and the second time he would go higher than the first and then there he would be, on his last and loftiest flight, reclining, as if for good, against the cobalt blue of the summer noon, like one of those paradisiac personages who comfortably soar, with such a wealth of folds in their garments, on the vaulted ceiling of a church while below, one by one, the wax tapers in mortal hands light up to make a swarm of minute flames in the mist of incense, and the priest chants of eternal repose, and funeral lilies conceal the face of whoever lies there, among the swimming lights, in the open coffin. — Vladimir Nabokov

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God. — G. C. Berkouwer

Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism. — Bruce A. Demarest

In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works. — G. C. Berkouwer

Slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?" — Craig Ferguson

The people who really, actually loved us, they'd beg us to go. To fulfill our dreams. Practice our craft. And they would love us when we all came back. — Chuck Palahniuk

The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no. — Stephen Fry

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth. — G. C. Berkouwer

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan. — Zac Farro