Craig S. Keener Quotes

Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

Craig S. Keener

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• 'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • South

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Whether we shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people

  

  Archibald Cox
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Money
  • Together

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Experience

• My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Smoking

• Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.

  

  Jacob Rothschild
  • Environment

• With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • People
  • Why
  • Star

• Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

  

  Daniel Pinkwater
  • People
  • Women
  • Guy

• The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.

  

  Daniel Mainwaring
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • Wonderful

• At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Country
  • Heroes

• The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Labor
  • Trade

• Spiritual giftedness does not guarantee that we hear from God rightly on every point.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Hear