“The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.” — Elizabeth Johnston Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of not doing world-building or exposition. My eyes glaze over when I see it. — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
“Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to… — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it. — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Consecutive reading of biblical books forces everyone who wants to hear to put himself, or to allow himself to be found, where… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition like… — Plato Copy Share Image
One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
“Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“The first morning I really sat and watched him it was a Tuesday. I know that because Tuesday is trash day for… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Whilst we are in the body, we need a change even in spiritual things; and this change the Lord has graciously provided… — George Mueller Copy Share Image
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther arrived at his earthshaking conclusions imbued with biblical exposition. As a professor, he taught the book of Psalms verse by… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes… — a.w. tozer Copy Share Image
The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
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