Top 32 Kevin Vanhoozer Quotes
#2. I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
Anne Carson
#3. I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#4. Pastor-theologians exist to embody the evangelical mood, an indicative declaration ("He is risen! He is Lord!") and a concomitant way of being that is attuned to the world as already-not-yet made new in Jesus Christ.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
#5. It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
Bernard Arnault
#6. Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
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#7. The best way to remain in your relationship is to keep other people out of your relationship.
Carlos Wallace
#8. The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What
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#9. Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.
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#10. I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
Bertrand Russell
#11. Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
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#13. The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.
Lester R. Brown
#14. The house might, in fact, have passed for the world's largest rosebush if here and there a pane of glass had not gleamed and a few dark shingles showed beneath the rose leaves. Two chimneys and a row of gables stuck timid snouts out along the roof line.
Jane Louise Curry
#15. Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.
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#16. Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.
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#17. My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.
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#19. To get a doctorate, you need only have a modicum of intelligence and the ability to grind it out. I'm afraid you may only be qualified to be an academic, not a pastor. Ministry is a lot harder than scholarship.
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#20. God is the reason I'm surviving, but he's sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.
Esther Earl
#21. I'm very sorry if I offended anybody. I'd like to put it in the past now. What's done is done. I regret it.
Prince Harry
#22. The church is biblical, therefore, when it seeks to embody the words in the power of the Spirit and so become a living commentary. The church is thus not only the "people of the book" but also "the (lived) interpretation of the book.
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#23. All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not ...
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#24. I support women. I'm like a human BRA.
LIZ
#25. The costs of placing a four-year-old and an infant in child care exceed annual median rent payments in every state. Despite
Sheryl Sandberg
#26. I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
Jenny Downham
#27. The truth is that there is a world of difference between looking beautiful and being beautiful.
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#28. SOME LEGENDS ARE REAL, from Black Mountain, Greig Beck, 2012.
Greig Beck
#29. Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#30. the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?
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#31. Christianity is neither a system of ideas nor of morality but a way, a way of life.
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#32. Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.
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