Bart Ehrman Quotes
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
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It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
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I'm not a fanatic about my diet. I just believe the more aware you become of your spiritual being, the more you want to respect your physical being. It's a spiritual diet: You love yourself too much to eat crap!
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What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
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I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
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Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
