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The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.


Leland Ryken

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LELAND RYKEN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Unlike Liberals who like to speak for God by interpreting his words, I just quote the bible. I want ...
JAIME CONTRERAS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'bibl...
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GARY F EVANS... The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, b...
MARY SCHAPIRO Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. ...
JOHN BERGER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The goal of this project is to capture as much of the original genetic diversity as possible by incl...
JACK JOHNSTON We've been as transparent as possible. We felt like we had to be as open as possible. This is about ...
BERT KELLY Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to peop...
LYDIA DAVIS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK The original is unfaithful to the translation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates...
PLATO Nothing tastes nor smells psychologically as good as the original.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is the bond of perfection.
JOHN WINTHROP The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
BILL MAHER I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data
HENRY MORRIS We tell every kid this isn't the Bible ? it's not the only way. But the way we taught things (at Mou...
JUSTIN SCHULTE But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card - because the Bib...
JIM BAKKER In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Wel...
HILARY CLINTON The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of m...
BRENDAN BEHAN I don’t like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
MARTIN BUBER The Bible is the Chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, ...
NOAH WEBSTER There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
DWIGHT L. MOODY The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed
THOMAS PAINE My Grandmother told me that there was a passage in the bible that says, "It is better to spill your ...
A. WHITNEY BROWN Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE The things that you're liable to read in the Bible: it ain't necessarily so.
GEORGE GERSHWIN We've been as transparent as possible.
BERT KELLY As much as everyone wants to play as much as possible, the real goal of the season is to win as many...
COREY GLEASON The original language of Christianity is translation.
LAMIN SANNEH Logically, taking Scripture seriously means being passionately concerned about interpreting it corre...
HUGH ROSS Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Even if the issues discussed transcend the confines of the text of the original truce, they cannot b...
ANTON BALASINGHAM The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resour...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM [Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the...
PAUL S. MINEAR Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions ...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Trust might be the only solution.
NEIL TIMOTHY P. EDILLON You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally ori...
RICKEY MEDLOCKE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what the...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Having a survey without bias is clearly the goal here. Surveys are tricky. You can load a question a...
CHRIS MICKELSEN In order to ensure long-term investment, it is important to make infrastructure as transparent and a...
ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible abou...
ALBERT EINSTEIN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
DICK WOLF The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me
DWIGHT L. MOODY The Bible of Photojournalism
HAROLD EVANS The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very...
TROY PERRY There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking...
THOMAS PAINE I get lots of emails from Italians who love our product. We get requests from churches in the Bible ...
ALAN ADLER How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We would sit and talk about the Bible. We would sit and talk about opera. We would sit and talk abou...
JACK ABRAMOFF Our principal mission is to teach the Bible,
BARRY MCCARTY The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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