Quotes About Event

What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is different…the End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah

First-century Jews looked forward to a public event … in and through which their god would reveal to all the world that he was not just a local, tribal deity, but the creator and sovereign of all … The early Christians … looked back to an event in and through which, they claimed, Israel's god had done exactly that.

Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now.

Remember what we said earlier: for something to qualify as news, there has to be (1) an announcement of an event that has happened; (2) a larger context, a backstory, within which this makes sense; (3) a sudden unveiling of the new future that lies ahead; and (4) a transformation of the present moment, sitting between the event that has happened and the further event that therefore will happen. That is how news works. It is certainly how the early Christian good news worked:

The divine rescuing purposes and Israel's vocation come rushing together in the same human being, the same event.

I officially declare the opening of the First Danielle Fox Memorial," Abbie pronounced solemnly.

It's a story about the stuff that happens just exactly when you weren't expecting it; just on that night you thought nothing was going to happen, everything happens.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

Forgiveness is, in fact, experiencing in imagination the revised version of the day, experiencing in imagination what you wish you had experienced in the flesh. Every time one really forgives - that is, every time one relives the event as it should have been lived - one is born again.

All of Cadiz turned out to watch the fleet go.

Dr. Henderson made the interesting observation that this was the very same day that North Korea had invaded the South, an event that still looked likely to provoke a third world war, for which Diane would also likely be held responsible.

would come along at least once

The word midrash itself springs from the Hebrew, I'drash , meaning 'to question'. . . . midrash invents alternative aspects of character and event, keeping the possibilities open [ Out of the Garden .

Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among the crowd at the back.

While many Greeks (although not Thucydides) thought that history moved in circles, repeating itself infinitely, the Jewish idea that each event was singular and proceeded along a straight line had a great impact on European thinking.

The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberation

after three years of war, a death from disease, even if it befell a public figure, had ceased being an event worth talking about.

Florentynka wcale nie uwa?a?a si? za wariatk?. Ksi??yc prze?ladowa? j?, jak ka?dy normalny prze?ladowca. Ale której? nocy wydarzy?o si? co? dziwnego.

Perhaps tiny signs reveal this sort of cosmic event to us, but we don't notice them either

All great discoveries and inventions spring from the delight of strong men in victory. They are expressions of personality and not of the utilitarian thinking of the masses, who are merely spectators of the event, but must take its consequences whatever they may be.

Guenevere brought me a cookie and a big box of Kleenex. She said that choices can't be good or bad. There is only the event and the lessons learned from it.

When was the first time you saw Frost?" "When he tried that coup on Marsilia," I said. "Um. Two years ago? Okay, right. That means it can't have been Frost.

Do we have to invite all of them?" "We might as well," Cimorene said. "We're asking everyone else. And most of them are family." "I think it would be easier to elope," Mendanbar said.