Canonical Quotes
- In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
- One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical… — F. F. Bruce
- Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
- It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so. — William Barclay
- Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and skill in the… — Stephen Jay Gould
- These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting… — Hari Kunzru
- You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one… — Julie Orringer
- One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but… — Giorgio Agamben
- What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. — Neil MacGregor