Quotes about Lives

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

It can be argued that Advent, more than any other season of the church year, is immediately relevant to our concrete lives as individuals, to the concrete life of the church under stress, and to the concrete headlines in the newspaper.

Being filled with the Spirit is shown to have had a dynamic and energizing effect or power in the New Testament and in the lives of millions of people since then.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

For love changes everything and forces us into lives we never imagined we might lead

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

I have great respect for people who live out their beliefs. For example, Ed Begley Jr. is an environmentalist, but he really lives his lives, and is he very prudent in the way he lives. He's cautious. He's not like an Al Gore that flies around in a private jet and burns 20,000 gallons a day on his jet.

It gives you a real respect for the truth when you have to help clean up lives that have been based on a lie. Think about it.

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.

I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.