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My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.
- Leland Ryken
I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
- Blase J. Cupich
Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.
- Billy Graham
Massachusetts, whose constitution, as to this article, seems to have been the original from which the convention have copied.
- Alexander Hamilton
Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This makes our ending place—and everything in between—possessing an inherent capacity for goodness, truth, and beauty.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This
- Fr. Richard Rohr
John Dominic Crossan demonstrates convincingly through art that "the West lost and the East kept the original Easter vision.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The Bible says, "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works."1 Our English word poem comes from the Greek word translated "workmanship." You are God's handcrafted work of art. You are not an assembly-line product, mass produced without thought. You are a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterpiece.
- Rick Warren
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
- Alexander Hamilton
I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
- Sonny Bono
The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
- Peter Mullan
These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.
- Joseph Campbell