Craig S. Keener Quotes
He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel spiritual.
Quotes to Explore
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.
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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.
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For I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God.
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Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.
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I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
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I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'
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I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.
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On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
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Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
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He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel spiritual.
