Adolph Saphir Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Writers are not meant for action.
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The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
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If censorship reigns, there cannot be sincere flattery, and none but little men are afraid of little writings.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.
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Unity has never meant uniformity.
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I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
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None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.
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The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.
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In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
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And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
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Live the New Life 1:13. Men wore long robes and would tuck them into their belt, and thus “gird up their loins,” so they could move more freely and quickly. Although the image also occurs elsewhere in the *Old Testament, here Peter may specifically allude to the Passover (Ex 12:11): once God’s people had been redeemed by the blood of the lamb (1 Pet 1:19), they were to be ready to follow God forth until he had brought them safely into their inheritance (cf. 1:4), the Promised Land. Thus they were to be dressed and ready to flee. “Sobriety” in ancient usage meant not only literal abstinence from drink but also behaving as a nonintoxicated person should, hence with dignified self-control. 1:14
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In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke, or Mark, or Paul’s writings, or any of the early Christian texts that make up the New Testament.
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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
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Couldst thou in vision see, thyself the man God meant, thou never then could be, the man thou art content.
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Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
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I know it's a cliche, but I've been happy to go to work every day.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets.
