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It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I… — Rich Mullins
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism… — Rod Dreher
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence. — Andrew Delbanco
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that… — Michael Hardt
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing… — Unknown Author
My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions.… — Padma Subrahmanyam
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer… — Geoffrey Dutton
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre
Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all… — David Amram
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet,… — Unknown Author
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. — Juan Goytisolo
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. — Eberhard Weber
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the scriptures… — Arnold Beichman
Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the… — Charles S. Maier
One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that… — Merrill C. Tenney
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an… — Sam Hamill
The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls. — J.P. Moreland
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in… — Cathleen Schine
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a dream come true.… — Karen Kain
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a… — Graeme Murphy
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to… — Jerry Saltz

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