Top 24 Gordon Fee Quotes
#1. New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn't help very much. A map certainly doesn't help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you've never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father's house.
Mark Batterson
#2. I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.
Gordon Fee
#4. And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America.
Steve Wynn
#5. Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings. Those who influenced me the most didn't just point a finger, they held out a helping hand.
Phil Callaway
#6. Our theology and experience of the Spirit must be more interwoven if our experienced life of the Spirit is to be more effective.
Gordon D. Fee
#7. Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.
Gordon D. Fee
#8. Because the Bible is God's Word, it has eternal relevance; it speaks to all humankind, in every age and in every culture.
Gordon D. Fee
#9. It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
Gordon Fee
#10. 1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings
Gordon D. Fee
#12. who have felt broken but keep moving forward. For all the ones who are searching for something beautiful in the world. You already have it within.
Jennifer Probst
#13. This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#14. I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.
Jack Nicholson
#15. The key to life in the Spirit for some is to spend much more quiet time in thanksgiving and praise for what God has done - and is doing, and promises to do - and less time on introspection, focused on your failure to match up to the law.
Gordon D. Fee
#16. I write you a letter that begins
With I love you and ends with I love you and
Somewhere in the middle is one goodbye for
Every hurt
Patricia Smith
#17. The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the greatness of his kingdom and a sense of what living with him for eternity will be like.
Gordon Fee
#18. A text cannot mean what it could never have meant for its original readers/hearers.
Gordon D. Fee
#19. One crucial thing to keep in mind as you read any Hebrew narrative is the presence of God in the narrative. In any biblical narrative, God is the ultimate character, the supreme hero of the story.
Gordon D. Fee
#20. God has made us this way, in his own image, because he himself is a personal, relational being.
Gordon D. Fee
#21. I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#22. [P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
Gordon Fee
#23. God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
Gordon Fee
#24. Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.
Gordon D. Fee
