Quotes About Context

We are all differently abled from one another, and context—which is socially constructed—often decides what will be protected and indulged.

Taken out of context, I must seem so strange

A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

Scripture exists; human beings interpret it.

The Voldemort effect in this context entails not naming Islamism, nor distinguishing it from the multifaceted religion.

Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed.

So much are the modes of excellence settled by time and place, that men may be heard boasting in one street of that which they would anxiously conceal in another.

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The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, Can you grab me the spoon? as opposed to a spoon, which at least connoted there was more than one.

No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life -Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key

When there is no context for justice, freedom-seeking behavior is seen as annoying. Or futile. Or a drag. Or oppressive. And dismissed and dismissed and dismissed and dismissed until that behavior is finally just not seen.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

If you think more privacy is always better, that is a case of loserthink. Every situation is different. Sometimes privacy is the problem that prevents the solution.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference. When

Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

The New Testament takes no demonstrable position on homosexuality. To suggest that Paul's references to excesses of sexual indulgence involving homosexual behavior are indicative of a general position in opposition to same-sex eroticism is as unfounded as arguing that his condemnation of drunkenness implies opposition to the drinking of wine.

The history of the object is more relevant than the object itself, if we want to pinpoint what is interesting to us.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there. The

to understand and explore interpersonal relationships, we must do so in the context of our relationship with God. We were made by Him and for Him. The root of all conflict is our departure from God, and the resolution of all conflict must build from peace with God.