The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.


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A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Here is the same clock that walked quietly
Through those enormous years I half recall,
When b...
JUDITH WRIGHT
It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
RICHARD WRIGHT
I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
WILBUR WRIGHT
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock o...
CHARLES WRIGHT
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
STEVEN WRIGHT
When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with ...
MICKEY WRIGHT
Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engin...
ORVILLE WRIGHT
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels acros...
WILBUR WRIGHT
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
STEVEN WRIGHT
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you stra...
STEPHEN WRIGHT
Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour...
STEPHEN WRIGHT
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
STEPHEN WRIGHT
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas...
STEPHEN WRIGHT
I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
STEPHEN WRIGHT
The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle mak...
STEPHEN WRIGHT
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
RONALD WRIGHT
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
STEPHEN WRIGHT
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
WILBUR WRIGHT
Even bitches can get a break in life.
SUZANNE WRIGHT
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the...
CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and...
GARY WRIGHT
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit...
GARY WRIGHT
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
STEVEN WRIGHT
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
STEVEN WRIGHT
We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power cou...
ORVILLE WRIGHT
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ...
JUDITH WRIGHT
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass...
JOE WRIGHT
In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality,...
EDGAR WRIGHT
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to...
TERESA WRIGHT
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money tha...
RICK WRIGHT
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers a...
GARY WRIGHT
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT