Quotes About Contemporary

spoke of the coming of the kingdom of God, he meant that "the end" was at hand. In the near future, God would dramatically intervene in the world, bring ordinary history to a close, and establish the everlasting kingdom. Scholarly opinion about this has changed in the last twenty years or so. Along with probably a majority of contemporary scholars, both Tom and I (for somewhat different reasons) reject this understanding.51

What, then, did Jesus mean by his kingdom announcement? Let me anticipate my conclusion. Jesus was telling his contemporaries that the kingdom was indeed breaking into history, but that it did not look like what they had expected.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

My people are Americans. My time is today.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

Dutch writer Ian Buruma saw as an attempt to remind the English 'of their collective dreams of Englishness, so glorious, so poignant, so bittersweet in the resentful seediness of contemporary little England.

find is a lucid and reflective account of one of the world's oldest and greatest faiths and its contemporary existence.

The contemporary motto for the mullet-wearer is business in front, party in the back but the Indian mullet warrior motto was I don't want my hair to get in my eyes as I'm kicking your ass.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.