Dan Barker Quotes
Theology is a subject without an object
Dan Barker
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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
N. T. Wright
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese
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Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
Vidal Sassoon
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
R. C. Sproul
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
Victor Papanek
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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
Seth Godin
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
Tamron Hall
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Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.
Aristotle
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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
Blaise Pascal
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Theology is a subject without an object
Dan Barker
