Quotes about Context

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

The crucial significance of the cradle at Bethlehem lies in its place in the sequence of steps down that led the Son of God to the cross of Calvary, and we do not understand it till we see it in this context.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people write this down? What was going on in their world that this was important to them? Why did they feel the need to put words to this? Start with that question. Start with those questions. And see what happens.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.