Emil Brunner Quotes

Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.

Emil Brunner

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• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• I actually hate shopping.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Actually

• Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Finding

• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Society
  • Negative
  • Even

• No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

  

  Barry White
  • Soul
  • Brother
  • Understand

• The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Freedom
  • Jesus
  • Slave

• If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Way

• Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly want to have the Spirit of the Lord and experience joy and happiness, we should rejoice in our blessings and be grateful.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Joy

• All great ideas are dangerous.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Dangerous

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Remember
  • Good Friend
  • New World

• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Trying
  • Respect
  • Practice

• When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honor
  • Blame
  • Subordinates

• If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Beautiful

• The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Persons
  • Harmony
  • Doctors

• His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

  

  William Manchester
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Heroism

• You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.

  

  Bun B
  • Book
  • Rap
  • Five

• You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

  

  Alexander Gustafsson
  • Energy
  • Fight
  • Cage

• I think that when Michelle Pfeiffer goes out, she's exactly what I aspire to be - she always looks beautiful and sexy, but she never looks like she's trying to be the center of attention.

  

  Rena Sofer
  • Always
  • Looks
  • Sexy

• There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Sin

• The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Office
  • Priorities

• Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.

  

  Emil Brunner
  • Sin
  • Obedience
  • Theology