Quotes about Accommodating

For we that live to please must please to live.

— Samuel Johnson

In Acts 10—11, in the encounter of the Torah-observant Peter with the God-fearing Gentile Cornelius, we see what "fulfill" looks like for the apostles: it means some radical revisioning without abolishing. Paul's words about accommodating himself to Gentile ways in 1 Corinthians 9:19—23 also illustrate how the apostles "applied" this claim by Jesus. Second lesson in Bible reading: looking to Jesus means following him and through him the Torah.

— Scot McKnight

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

— Publilius Syrus