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Quotes about Comprehensiveness

The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication.
- Cornelius Van Til
They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
- Herman Melville
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.
- NT Wright
Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.
- Eric Metaxas
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
- Francis Schaeffer