Quotes about Paradigm

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them.

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Bob Kauflin Kauflin argues that Christians tend to fall into one of three categories when it comes to the relationship between music and words: (1) music supersedes the word; (2) music undermines the word; (3) music serves the word. Arguing for this third paradigm, Kauflin suggests three implications:

I do My greatest works through people with grateful, trusting hearts. Rather than planning and evaluating, practice trusting and thanking Me continually. This is a paradigm shift that will revolutionize your life.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

He destroyed an entire way of seeing the world, one that had held sway from the beginning of history, and he replaced it with another way of seeing the world. Included in the old way of seeing things was the idea that the evil of slavery was good.

Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.

Jesus completely abolishes all ordinary ideas and expectations people have of a Supreme Being.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.