Quotes About Text

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Any committed Christian is capable of initiating a good conversation on a biblical text.

Biblical expositors are not pining away in their studies searching for ways to bring relevancy to their message. They don't need to. The Bible is relevant. Rather, they draw out the implications and applications that are already there in the text in ways that make sense for the culture the church is embedded in.

Expository preaching is empowered preaching that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of a biblical text. In that way, it brings out of the text what the Holy Spirit put there…and does not put into the text what the preacher thinks might be there.

One of the problems with contextualized preaching today, however, is that it often has a misplaced emphasis. By elevating contextualization to a studied discipline overly focused on practical gains, some preachers treat the biblical text in a haphazard and halfhearted way. This is the blind adherence problem. Out of a healthy desire to move the mission of his church forward, the preacher focuses his preparation exclusively on creative and artistic ways he can make his sermon relevant.

A faithful preacher starts the sermon preparation process by paying attention to a biblical text's original audience and a text's purposes for those readers. He 1) gives the biblical context control over the meaning of the text; 2) listens intently until he knows how the text fits within the overall message of the book; 3) sees the structure and emphasis of the text.

For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice.

Av, sava??n yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre sava?? en iyi ö?reten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde sava? ile av hemen hemen e? anlaml?yd? ve genel kural olarak eri?kin say?labilmek için bir insan? öldürmek gerekiyordu, av ba?ar?s? da genellikle buna e? tutulurdu.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

En lo que tiene fe mi hermana es en el conocimiento. Su sagrada escritura es el diccionario Oxford. Cuando inclina la cabeza sobre el texto, pasando las páginas con sus raudos dedos, está con su Dios.

Qu'est-ce que le texte, sinon un gigantesque cartilage verbal?

no resultarían más útiles a su texto amándolo pese a todo, con ese amor verdadero que no se expresa a través de la verborrea sino con un silencio puntuado de palabras fuertes?

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.

In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

I sent a quick text to Adrian: I have a hickey! You can't ever kiss me again. I honestly hadn't expected him to be awake this early, so I was surprised to get a response: Okay. I won't kiss you on your neck again. So typical of him. No! You can't ever kiss me ANYWHERE. You said you were going to keep your distance. I'm trying, he wrote back. But you won't keep your distance from me. I didn't dignify that with a response.

The ancient sages said the words of the sacred text were black letters on a white page—there's all that white space, waiting to be filled with our responses and discussions and debates and opinions and longings and desires and wisdom and insights. We read the words, and then enter into the discussion that has been going on for thousands of years across cultures and continents.

Att vara expert på de religiösa texterna innebär att man vet precis vilka stycken man ska läsa och vilka man ska hoppa över .

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

The expert goes over my text and says, "Don't use this word—use that word instead. Then we will get more attention from the Google algorithm." We know that if we can just catch the eye of the algorithm, we can take the humans for granted.