Hubris Quote by Michael S. Heiser Download Open image “We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.” — Michael S. Heiser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hubris Rebellion Revolution
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers were wrong… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world. — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails… — Plato Copy Share Image
It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image