Quotes about Provocative

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

call attention of course to the breasts. Some of these women have been within inches of getting Ed to put his head down on their chests, right there in Sally's living room. Watching all this out of the corners of her eyes while serving the liqueurs, Sally feels the Aztec rise within her. Trouble with your heart? Get it removed, she thinks. Then you'll have no more problems.

Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to forgive. For the people who first heard this story, the story would have had a provocative, unsettling effect. The Assyrians? The Assyrians were like a huge, gaping, open wound for the Israelites. Bless the Assyrians? The story is extremely subversive because it insists that your enemy may be more open to grace and love than you are.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.