Quotes about Context

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand it till we see it in this context.