Lame Man In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion. — Nancy Pearcey

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed. — Margaret Atwood

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result. — Matthew Lillard

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Does she know I feel immobile and fixed, lost in her? — Anais Nin

Animals suffer both emotionally and physically, but they don't suffer metaphysically. That is, they don't suffer about suffering, don't get thrown into spiritual confusion by it, or fall out of connection with the divine because of it. — Linda Bender

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is. — Lars Von Trier

I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable. — Gerhard Richter

Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader. — Rabih Alameddine

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing. — Dorothy Day

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. — Matthew Arnold

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space. — Julio Cortazar

As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus, we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible, and no further: for if we do, we must believe the two miracles which Tacitus relates were performed by Vespasian, that of curing a lame man, and a blind man, in just the same manner as the same things are told of Jesus Christ by his historians. We must also believe the miracles cited by Josephus, that of the sea of Pamphilia opening to let Alexander and his army pass, as is related of the Red Sea in Exodus. These miracles are quite as well authenticated as the Bible miracles, and yet we do not believe them; consequently the degree of evidence necessary to establish our belief of things naturally incredible, whether in the Bible or elsewhere, is far greater than that which obtains our belief to natural and probable things. — Thomas Paine