Quotes About Emphasis

Clasping your hands together means you are serious. Clasping them around someone else's throat means you are very serious

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget.

Ministers are required to emphasize doctrines.

When additional emphasis is placed upon these officiants being celibate and male (to avoid the pollution of menstruation), then the importance of ritual purity for many Christians, though they may have become unaware of it through familiarity, becomes obvious. Perhaps no more need be said, but the Christian view of the Blessed Virgin Mary might be a fruitful area for further exploration.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

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I do not know if that theory is correct, but I do know that singling out one behavior as "sin" and emphasizing it over others provides a convenient way of dodging our own need for grace. High-minded moralism and shrill pronouncements of judgment may help fundraising, but they undermine a gospel of grace.

Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response.

Taken as a whole, the Bible clearly puts the emphasis on what pleases God—the point of worship, after all. To worship, says Walter Wink, is to remember Who owns the house.

What practically defines the evangelical church today is an emphasis on two issues that Jesus did not even mention.

Highlight – Genesis 24:3 Marrying Foreigners From this earliest period of Israelite history, there was an emphasis on not marrying foreigners. The reason had to do with religion, not race—in many cases foreigners were distant relatives, but they worshiped false gods. When foreigners were willing to worship Israel's God, they were welcomed (see the book of Ruth, for example).

These two distinct crimes, with their different emphases on the individual and the group, grew side by side, yet over time genocide emerged in the eyes of many as the crime of crimes, a hierarchy that left a suggestion that the killing of large numbers of people as individuals was somehow less terrible.

He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us.

There were a few faint echoes from the common room two floors below, and a brief flurry of noise and movement, but this served only to emphasize my own isolation.

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.

The domestic violence policy has been given to our players. My personal view is there's no place in our society for it. I think, especially with the emphasis and education that's out there now, let's hope better light will be shined on this area.

I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.