Quotes about Paradigm
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
- Al Gore
When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.
- Albert Einstein
humans tend to live themselves into new ways of thinking more than think themselves into new ways of living.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
As Simone Weil said in various ways, it is much easier to make non-Christians into Christians than it is to make Christians into Christians. Cradle Christians are almost totally preconditioned to the carrot-on-the-stick model.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We were largely taught what to believe instead of how to believe.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.
- Alvin Plantinga
You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins.
- Rob Bell
Can you see why Jesus often began his teachings by saying "Repent!"? You know what repent means? It means to change your thinking, to see things in a new way, to have your mind renewed—all
- Rob Bell
So if that's it, if that's the point of it all, if that's the ticket, the center, the one unavoidable reality, the heart of the Christian faith, why is it that no one used the phrase until the last hundred years or so?
- Rob Bell
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
- Deepak Chopra
About every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale. And, he goes on to say, we are living in and through one of those five-hundred-year sales.
- Phyllis Tickle
We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.
- Randy Alcorn