Demythologize The Bible Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad — Pearl S. Buck

His [brother in law Jim Hampson] appointment to the Episcopal parish in Wenham, near Gordon College brought them in close touch with leading evangelical faculty members in their pews and church leadership, including Elizabeth Elliot and Addison Leitch. They were instrumental in drawing Jim and and Sarah into the cutting edge of evangelical intellectual leadership, with friendships with Tom Howard and J.I. Packer. My ongoing relationship with Jim Packer, FitzSimons Allison and many other brilliant Anglican evangelicals would not have happened without Jim Hampson. His early influence on me in my transition from modern to classic Christian teaching was immense. While I was trying to demythologize Scripture, he was taking its plain meaning seriously. His strong preaching led him to become one of the founding sponsors and supporters of Trinity School of Ministry in Abridge, Pennsylvania ... — Thomas C. Oden

The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is. — Cate Tiernan

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want? — Bob Bergen

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. — Maria Callas

No place is a place until it has found its poet. — Wallace Stegner

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111) — Joseph Campbell

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts. — Richard Belzer