Michael Heiser Quotes

#1. If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

Salma Hayek

#2. In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Steve Allen

#3. The Law was not how Israelites achieved salvation - it was how they showed loyalty to the God they believed in.

Michael S. Heiser

#4. What do you say when you are not enough to make someone stay.

Katie Kacvinsky

#5. THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT PSALM 82 CAN ROCK YOUR BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW. Once I saw what it was actually saying, I was convinced that I needed to look at the Bible through ancient eyes, not my traditions.

Michael S. Heiser

#6. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

Truman Capote

#7. You see why the psalm threw me for a loop. The first verse has God presiding over an assembly of gods. Doesn't that sound like a pantheon - something we associate with polytheism and mythology?

Michael S. Heiser

#8. Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Seth Godin

#9. The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Goldie Hawn

#10. ANY VETERAN WHO HAS EXPERIENCED COMBAT WILL TELL YOU THAT WAR IS a terrible thing.

Michael S. Heiser

#11. Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you've had sex with. A person you've licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.

Daniel Woodrell

#12. Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

C. JoyBell C.

#13. I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.

Jonathan Zittrain

#14. My contention is that, if our theology really derives from the biblical text, we must reconsider our selective supernaturalism and recover a biblical theology of the unseen world

Michael S. Heiser

#15. The More I resist the more I need to change.ins

Renee Wiggins

#16. The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers.

Michael S. Heiser

#17. Caught in such a conflict, you must take sides.

Michael S. Heiser

#18. Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.

Stephen Saad

#19. A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain.

Oscar Wilde

#20. To a timeless being, time means nothing. But timing is everything.

Michael S. Heiser

#21. CHILDREN OFTEN ASK, "WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE GOD MADE THE WORLD?" The answer most adults would give is that God was there. That's true, but incomplete. God had company. And I'm not talking about the other members of the Trinity.

Michael S. Heiser

#22. Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Charles Duhigg

#23. When an enemy wants nothing but your defeat and annihilation, neutrality means choosing death.

Michael S. Heiser

#24. There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

Todd Neva

#25. When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

Apostolos Doxiadis