Quotes about Provocative
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
— Lady Gaga
There is nothing more insufferable and poisonous on earth than a barefoot monk.
— Martin Luther
And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”
— Ezekiel 4:12
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
— Os Guinness
Make dumb suggestions.
— Patrick Lencioni
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.
— Samuel Johnson
I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
— Leonard Ravenhill
That's Jesus for you. Making people across time upset with him.
— Peter Enns
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
— Os Guinness
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
— Mark Twain
Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to forgive. For the people who first heard this story, the story would have had a provocative, unsettling effect. The Assyrians? The Assyrians were like a huge, gaping, open wound for the Israelites. Bless the Assyrians? The story is extremely subversive because it insists that your enemy may be more open to grace and love than you are.
— Rob Bell