Quotes about Critique
Read Civilization on Trial and The World and the West.
- John Perkins
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
- Mark Twain
To Erasmus] I give you hearty praise and commendation on this further account-that you alone, in contrast with all others, have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not wearied me with those extraneous issues about the Papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like -trifles, rather than issues... you, and you alone have seen the hinge on which all turns, and aimed for the vital spot.
- Martin Luther
There is nothing more insufferable and poisonous on earth than a barefoot monk.
- Martin Luther
Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture
- Miroslav Volf
I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as God-in-public, and that methods of criticism designed to keep this rumor quiet need to be challenged by appropriate historical, theological, and political critique and replaced by methods that do justice to the reality of the texts and hence do justice - in the much fuller sense - in the public world that the Gospels demand to address.
- NT Wright
Sanders argued, basically, that the normal Christian, and especially Protestant, readings of Paul were seriously flawed, because they attributed to first-century Judaism theological views which belonged rather to medieval Catholicism. Once we described Judaism accurately, Sanders argued, we were forced to rethink Paul's critique of it, and his whole positive theology in its turn.
- NT Wright
you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)
- Norman Geisler
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Tom Lehrer
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Tom Lehrer
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
- Mark Twain