Plausibility Structure Quotes

#1. If we cannot speak with confidence about biblical authority, what ground have we for challenging the reigning plausibility structure?

Lesslie Newbigin

#2. The business of the missionary, and the business of the Christian Church in any situation, is to challenge the plausibility structure in the light of God's revelation of the real meaning of history.

Lesslie Newbigin

#3. Our current Western cultural plausibility structure elevates science and scorns and mocks religion, especially Christian teaching. As a result, believers in Western cultures do not as readily believe the supernatural worldview of the Bible in comparison with their Third World brothers and sisters.

J.P. Moreland

#4. I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

Demi Lovato

#5. For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

John Podhoretz

#6. I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.

Ann Leckie

#7. A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#8. Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

Keith Devlin

#9. Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

Mitch Kapor

#10. A good song and good musicians can really move mountains.

Joey Tempest