David P Weikart Quotes & Sayings

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world. — N. T. Wright

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft." — Alan King

I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it. — Will Alsop

She was young and lovely and surprised and dead. She was also blue. Blue as opals, pale blue. Blue as cornflowers, or dragonfly wings, or a spring - not summer - sky. — Laini Taylor

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. — Cass Sunstein

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people. — Peter Drucker

Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"? — Patton Oswalt

Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only read romance? — Harriet Evans

One cannot say with words what music says without them. — Steven Feld

I had to let her know that the reason she'd never heard of me was because I was famous. — Neal Stephenson