But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts
Knowledge of facts is important. Knowledge of truth is essential. Yet our Lord's concern goes beyond mere head knowledge. He wants us not only to know the truth but also to obey the truth. He wants us to live the truth, practice the truth, and be conformed to and transformed by that truth.
A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.
Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.
It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.
For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.
I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.