Craig S. Keener Quotes

Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases—through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam’s donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.

Craig S. Keener

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• Sovereign
• Pleases

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• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

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• I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.

  

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• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

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• I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

  

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• Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

  

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• I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  

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• M. Tyndall hearing thys, ful of godly zeale, and not bearing that blasphemous saying, replied againe & sayde: I defie the Pope and all his lawes: and further added, that if God spared hym life, ere many yeares he would cause a boy that driueth the plough to know more of the Scripture, then he did.

  

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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

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• We'd like to see Patrick continue to make the real good plays he's made and eliminate the bad ones, ... We need to be efficient.

  

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• Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases—through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam’s donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • God
  • Speak
  • Sovereign