Quotes about Provocative

Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.

After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged.

I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers.