Andreas J. Kostenberger Quotes
Leading unbelievers to Christ is a greater cause than insisting on justice in human relationships. Believers are to defer their craving for justice until the last day, trusting God as Jesus did.
Quotes to Explore
-
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
-
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
-
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
-
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
-
We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
-
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
-
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
-
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
-
My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
-
Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
-
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
-
God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
-
Coal is a portable climate.
-
I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
-
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
-
I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.
-
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
-
Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
-
I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.
-
When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
-
I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.
-
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
-
Leading unbelievers to Christ is a greater cause than insisting on justice in human relationships. Believers are to defer their craving for justice until the last day, trusting God as Jesus did.
