Poetry Quote by Shmuel Pernicone Download Open image ““Seemingly unethical verses must be interpreted so as to be read ethically.”” — Shmuel Pernicone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Don’t merely read verses; if that is all we do, we run the risk of deceiving ourselves. Don’t just pile up biblical information in… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not a description of what people do; it's a prescription for what we all should do.” — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.” — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
“God has not given us specific instructions for each and every possible ethical issue we face, but neither are we left to grope in… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The Bible must not be read as a job description for motivated, self-disciplined, devoutly religious people to be their own heroes and saviors of… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“In a last-ditch effort, some readers may pathetically attack the scientific method, claiming that all subjective perspective is flawed and cannot be trusted, no… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“How can we draw nearer to HaShem’s throne without a living parietal lobe to navigate space? How can we see his glorious light without… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“This is the very basis of inspiration and friendship, both of which are, in essence, spiritual connections. No two people are exactly the same,… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“Putting a slight twist on Pascal’s famous wager, what do we have to lose? Are we afraid to meet God having dreamed as if… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“Value nuance and skepticism over any blind dogma. Pierce through the cacophony of human error and listen for the still, small voice of God.… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“Ideas should be freely and dispassionately considered on their own merits, since after all, one generation’s heretic is another generation’s hero. Mystics like the… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that the two primary terms for heaven and hell in Judaism are “Gan Eden” and “Gehinnom.” Gan Eden, as explained… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“While in yeshiva, I was once asked by a friend and frequent debater, do I believe in a soul. I answered that I believe… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, it is perfectly alright to be afraid. It is human to fear death but childish not to face… — Shmuel Pernicone Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
