Quotes About Context

The development of hoplite warfare took place in this context of novel agrarianism, which promoted a particular type of moral excellence.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Too often, we fall into the trap of preach­ing the gospel to adults and the law to chil­dren: "God wants you to be good boys and girls." It is not that there is no truth in that state­ment, but with­out the right con­text and qual­i­fi­ca­tions it is a recipe for hope­less­ness.

Let us go back a little farther and read on until we come to these words, for we must not seek to learn the whole meaning of the section, from the concluding parts of it, or, if I may so say, from the tail of the chapter.

We are capable of generating an almost infinite number of narratives about the same event, and it is the interpretation of the event that matters, not just the event itself.

Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But

Never fall into the mistake of believing, said the examiner, that things are everywhere the way they are here, wherever here is, wherever everywhere is.

be aware of the fact that words, in and by themselves, have no reality, except in terms of the context in which they are used, in terms of the intentions and the character of the one who uses them.

As with all semantic difficulties, the answer can only be arbitrary.

A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.

If I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking about.

That sounded like an insult, but he wasn't sure. What's a dillweed? You. You're a dill weed. Well, that cleared things right up.

Only by proper performance in a social context does the individual fashion and renew himself by purposeful action in a world of shared meaning.

That has nothing to do with the story.

The frame through which I viewed the world changed too, over time. Greater than scene, I came to see, is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it is saying what it says. The question of why is most often the context for the transition into homiletical form.

Wszystko ma?e jest odbiciem czego? wi?kszego.

Always consider the context.

Fire in the fireplace is a wonderful thing. Fire on the carpet has the potential to burn down your house. Sex is like fire. In the right context, it is an awesome thing. But once it is outside the context it was designed for, sex can burn your life and relationships to the ground.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.