Bart Ehrman Quotes
At about the same time that apologies began to be written, Christians started producing accounts of their persecutions and the martyrdoms that happened as a result of them.
Quotes to Explore
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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Form follows beauty.
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He's protected the football, which is very important. I think he has made good decisions when things aren't there, which is really important. Everybody is going to hit something that's open. But when it's not there, Mark has played well.
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I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
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If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
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Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
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Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
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But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.
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One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
