Charles H. Kraft Quotes
...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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I have popular support.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I don't want to be without God's blessings.
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...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.
