Quotes about Relative
One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”
- John 18:26
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Peter Kreeft
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behaviour of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the size of human suffering is absolutely relative.
- Viktor E. Frankl
It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
- Oscar Wilde
Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.
- Chip Ingram
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
- Todd Burpo
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
- Margaret Atwood
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
- Bo Burnham
Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.
- Joseph Heller
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
- Peter Kreeft