Ben Witherington Quotes

#1. We're all just a decision or two away from destroying the relationships that are most important to us and the people we love. And most of the time, we never even know it.

Lauren Miller

#2. My temper began to rise
always a bad sign. I would probably end up doing something stupid.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

Christian Dior

#4. The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

Paula Radcliffe

#5. There is no hint here that preaching is thought of primarily as self-expression
of subjective experience or feeling-disclosure or autobiography or 'telling one's story' so as to neglect Scripture."275 It is the Word that is to be preached.

Ben Witherington III

#6. You need to ask yourself " How much do you want" before you start your online business.

Satyendra Pandey

#7. The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn't build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.

Ben Witherington III

#8. Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Javier Marias

#9. It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior.

Ben Witherington III

#10. You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

Salmon P. Chase

#11. With increased self-awareness comes focus... We become selective. We refrain from jumping to grab every opportunity that comes on our way...

Assegid Habtewold

#12. The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

Adam Derek Scott

#13. I am made of memories.

Madeline Miller

#14. I thought that religion, for all the good it does, seemed too risky for our modern world.

A. J. Jacobs

#15. Aunt Mary, you hurt my feelings." "Well, child, I'm glad to learn your feelings are hurt," returned the aunt. "I'm sure, Carley, that underneath all this--this blase ultra something you've acquired, there's a real heart. Only you must hurry and listen to it--or--

Zane Grey

#16. There is, in short,
something terribly wrong with claiming to be a devout Christian while hating one or another of the fellow believers.

Ben Witherington III

#17. Miracle Message #22: I speak with confidence because the world needs my light. #MiraclesNow

Gabrielle Bernstein

#18. Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions ... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

Victor Hugo