Quotes about Dimensions

For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.

heaven and earth in biblical cosmology are not two different locations within the same continuum of space or matter. They are two different dimensions of God's good creation.

The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold—and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

We can call this view liberalism, employing a definition by the self-described liberal philosopher Peter Berkowitz. In his words, "Each generation of liberal thinkers" focuses on "dimensions of life previously regarded as fixed by nature," then seeks to show that in reality they are "subject to human will and remaking.

And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.

Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.