Forrow Plow Quotes & Sayings

When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it - fundamentally evil as patriarchy was and is. Now, however, that modern society is at least officially egalitarian, the scandal is that the church is NOT going along with society, not rejoicing in the unprecedented freedom to let women and men serve according to gift and call without an arbitrary gender line. This scandal impedes both the evangelism of others and the edification - the retention and development of faith - of those already converted. — John G. Stackhouse Jr.

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different.
Furthermore, idiosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. [...] [W]e should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece. — Jenefer Robinson

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms. — Markus Zusak

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice. — Aldous Huxley

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. — Michael Winner

It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates. — Jim Sturgess

According to the magazine, if you turned the runes on their heads they revealed a spell to make your enemy's ears into kumquats. — J.K. Rowling

It's a great thing, to cherish your loved ones and to treasure everything around you. — Sakura Tsukuba

God does not ... give people positions or jobs or ... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it. — Marcus Garvey