Contemporary Quotes

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel… — Douglas Wilson
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — Berenice Abbott
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime against humanity. — Pope Francis
Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions,… — Brandon Cox
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image… — R C Sproul
I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's… — Kara DioGuardi
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is… — Anna Wintour
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the… — Vince Gill
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him… — Christopher Lee
Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it. — Jane Kirkpatrick
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,… — Pope John Paul II
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with… — Oscar Wilde
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man. — Pope Benedict XVI
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of… — John Gunther
In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A.… — Howard Gardner
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. — Rose Tremain
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. — Jeanette Winterson
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals… — John Stott
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson
I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in… — Jim Cantalupo
Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we… — Stanley J. Grenz
Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to… — W. W. Sawyer

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