Cornelius Plantinga Quotes
The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
Quotes to Explore
-
People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
-
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
-
The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
-
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
-
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
-
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
-
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
-
I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
-
Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
-
As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
-
I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
-
The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
-
They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
-
‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
-
Myself, I believe that black theatre continues to evolve, and the success of writers like Bola Agbaje and Rachel De-lahay is proof that fresh voices continue to emerge.
-
People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
-
A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.
-
The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.
-
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
-
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.
-
Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country
-
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
-
I believe that all things are possible under God.
-
The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
