Tremper And Co Quotes & Sayings

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words. — Neil Kennedy

This is why she doesn't put much stock in so-called secrets, or the meaningfulness of untold recollections that become, in their airtight echo chambers, the supposed stuff of secrets. They are only a way to become retrospectively enraged at someone else so that your own adult weaknesses can be tidily excused. — Heidi Julavits

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. — Seymour Simon

I'm very into working out, but I'm one of those where I'm good for, like, a month, and then I fall off, and then I'm good for a month ... like everyone! — JWoww

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy. — James Mercer

It is God's jealous love that both unnerves us and draws us to Him. His relentless pursuit, His fierce hatred of any rival, and His incomprehensible willingness to anguish on our behalf captures our heart for His love. His jealousy is our shield; it is our promise of eternal protection and passionate exclusivity. it is our confidence that the divine Lover will win His bride. — Tremper Longman III

The Psalms put us in touch with our deepest emotions. — Tremper Longman III

in Edward Glaeser, The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (New York: Penguin, 2011). 2. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (ed. Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman III [Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998], 150) speaks of the city as "humanity en masse" and therefore "humanity 'writ large.'" 3. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (p. 150) defines city as a "fortified habitation." 4. See Frank Frick, The City — Timothy J. Keller

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms. — Billy Graham

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. — Dan Quayle

We can't read the Psalms without an emotional response. — Tremper Longman III

My friend and Old Testament professor Tremper Longman once told me that reading the Bible is somewhat like watching the movie The Sixth Sense. That movie has a startling ending that forces you to go back and reinterpret everything you saw before. The second time through, you can't not think of the ending as you watch the beginning and middle of the movie. The ending sheds unignorable light on everything that went before. — Timothy Keller

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control. — Napoleon Hill

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives. — Mary Ellen Mark

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained ... — Benjamin Clementine

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it. — Johnny Winter

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind. — Isaac Deutscher

We believe that if the Bible is God speaking, then the most important posture of the Christian before the Bible is to listen. — Tremper Longman III

Twisting space-time into knots requires energy on a scale that will not be available within the next several centuries or even millenia-if ever. Even if all the nations of the world were to band together to build a machine that could probe hyperspace, they would ultimately fail. And, as Guth points out, the temperatures necessary to create a baby universe in the laboratory is 1,000 trillion trillion degrees, far in excess of anything available to us. In fact, that temperature is much greater than anything found in the interior of a star. So, although it is possible that Einstein's laws and the laws of quantum theory might allow for time travel, this is not within the capabilities of earthlings like us, who can barely escape the feeble gravitational field of our own planet. While we can marvel at the implications of wormhole research, realizing its potential is strictly reserved for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations. — Michio Kaku

Reality is what you embrace — Daniel Lee Edstrom

Wisdom, then, is how to live in God's world in God's way, — Tremper Longman III

Culture shifts, but the Word of God remains. — Tremper Longman III

the Psalms speak to all seasons of our souls. — Tremper Longman III