Propositional Revelation Quotes & Sayings

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Barth (or Barthianism134) believed that the Scriptures are not the word of God, per se, but merely a witness to the word of God (Jesus Christ).135 Revelation is not a propositional statement about God; rather it is an event (Ereignis), an encounter, something that "happens" to an individual. — Michael J. Kruger

Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future. — George Orwell

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. — George Washington

Don't get caught in the trap of always "Needing" something. Needing something always projects your mind into the future as if you have it and is the opposite of gratitude. Be content in the present moment. — Matthew Donnelly

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope. — Michel O'Brien

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them. — Ruth Brown

Remember you are the perfect reflector of your mind. — Richmond Akhigbe

Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if ... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good. — Georges Braque