Dygert Crash Quotes & Sayings

Defend the Hope When Peter commanded these believers to give a defense, what were they supposed to defend? Traditional apologists are almost unanimous here. They say the first order of business is "reasoning for the existence of God."116 Craig says we are to defend the plausibility of God's existence as being more likely than not.117 That is not at all what Peter was saying in 1 Peter 3:15. Rather, he was commanding all Christians to give a defense for "the hope" that was in them. And what was their "hope"? It was not the plausibility of God's existence as being more likely than not. Their hope was in Christ. — Clifford B. McManis

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that. — Ingrid Newkirk

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet

To argue with reality is to argue with God — Byron Katie

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments. — Jeff Wall

I had a really weird moment when I was doing ADR, and I was watching a sex scene that I was in. I had this really detached moment where I realized I was looking at my own behind in third person. — Robert Kazinsky

If something breaks when you're out crossing oceans, your choices are to fix it, replace it, or do without it. — Daria Blackwell

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

There had been a computer he had also built himself on the farthest corner of the room, but he had sold that a couple of months ago to buy me a necklace. I wore it then, it was two silver hearts linked as one. That's what he and I were, we we're one. — Natalie Valdes

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. — Frances Burney

A good idea is a network. A specific constellation of neurons - thousands of them - fire in sync with each other for the first time in your brain, and an idea pops into your consciousness. — Steven Johnson

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age. — Charles Darwin

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing. — Lana Del Rey

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart. — Orson Scott Card