Quotes about Definition
The world is not waiting for a new definition of the Gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the Gospel.
- Leonard Ravenhill
What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.
- Leonard Sweet
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry
Find and interpreting the important words.
- Mortimer Adler
you have to discover the meaning of a word you do not understand by using the meanings of all the other words in the context that you do understand.
- Mortimer Adler
You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits. - You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.
- Charles Martin
Only God gets to define Himself. And only God gets to reveal who He is and how He operates in history. He is who He is, not who you say He is.
- Tony Evans
The ezer is a warrior. Like the man, she is also God's creative masterpiece--a work of genius and a marvel to behold--for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. The ezer never sheds her image-bearer identity. Not here. Not ever. God defines who she is and how she is to live in his world. That never changes.
- Carolyn Custis James
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told.
- Calvin Coolidge
Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.
- JM Coetzee
If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.
- Tony Evans
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
- Lewis Carroll