Canonical Hermeneutics Quotes & Sayings

Proponents of canonical hermeneutics are either unintentionally or willfully naive here-in most cases the naivete is willful. Canonical readings simply act as if the evolution of the text is irrelevant to its meaning; usually this is because it is deemed to be more expedient for the purpose of exhorting a faith community if such considerations are put aside. — Thom Stark

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical. — Brett Dennen

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. — Jose Marti

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do. — Adrian Tomine

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees a complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost canonical status in Protestant theology. But now we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical. — Karl Barth

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. — William Shakespeare

For many years I thought I was a Christian when in fact I was not. It was only later that I came to see that I had never been a Christian and became one. ... What I needed was preaching that would convict me of sin. ... But I never heard this. The preaching we had was always based on the assumption that we were all Christians. — Steven J. Lawson

That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath. — Virginia Woolf

We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN. — Nat Friedman

You just surprised me,' said Damen. 'Sometimes I think I understand you, and at other times I can't make you out at all.'
'Believe me, that sentiment is mutual. — C.S. Pacat

When I'm at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be 'how do I get out of this hole?' In reality, the main question might be 'how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us. — Abraham Lincoln

A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions. — Alain De Botton

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. — Simone Weil

What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it. — Bret Easton Ellis