Quote by Eugene L. Lowry Download Open image ““It is a disservice to any form to elevate it as the form.”” — Eugene L. Lowry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.” — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
“There is an exemplary pillar of inner strength within you. Acknowledge it to embolden it to grow.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“By pointing out the errors of others, we strive to elevate ourselves above them.” — Alan E. Nelson Copy Share Image
“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“...form each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs...” — Debt The Frst 5 000 Years by David Graeber Copy Share Image
“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Being filled with the power of the Spirit begins with an honest acknowledgment of our own weakness.” — Kyle Idleman Copy Share Image
“Today I affirm: I am blessed. I am powerful. I am light. I am highly favored. I am more than a conqueror. I am… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“We yield to a God whose authority brings an empowering blessing, not an oppressive burden.” — Stovall Weems Copy Share Image
“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited. You… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Whatever the thinking of Prof. Lowry and his editor, they obviously share the conviction that The Homiletical Plot can sit comfortably on the shelf… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: “For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions.” 14” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it is saying… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Hence there is more action or natural movement in describing, for example, a God who walks in the garden in the cool of the… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already formed, but… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“I noted a second time appreciation for the author’s making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip service to… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image