{"id":717,"date":"2016-10-02T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.apologeet.nl\/?page_id=717"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:07:21","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotable quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-part\">\n<div id=\"content-intro\">\n<p class=\"\">\nSometimes you hear a quote and are determined to remember it for the right occasion. But after a while you cannot remember were you have heard the quote and how it actually was. This is the reason for collecting remarkable, funny and interesting quotes. In the first place because quotes are fun but not in the least because hey can be very usable in discussions or debates.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If you have a good quote together with the source, please do not hesitate to send it to Apologeet.nl:\n<br>\n<a class=\"screenshot e-mail-right\" rel=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/apologeet\/img\/tooltip\/mail.png\" title=\"You can send your quotes on the contact page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apologeet.nl\/en\/contact\">Contact<\/a>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:10px\">Please note that Apologeet.nl will review the quotes first<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nThe quotes are divided under several headings:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#aphorism\" class=\"scroll tooltip info\" title=\"&lt;span&gt;Explanation&lt;\/span&gt;A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation&lt;br&gt;(http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/aphorism)\">Aphorisms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#theology\" class=\"scroll\">Theology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#contrast\" class=\"scroll\">Contrasts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#miscellany\" class=\"scroll\">miscellany<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<br class=\"spacer\">\n<hr class=\"hr\"\/>\n<div id=\"content-part-content\">\n\n<!--START APHORISM-->\n\n<a id=\"aphorism\"><\/a>\n<h1>Aphorisms<\/a><\/h1>\n<div style=\"float:left;width:430px;\">\n<h4>Quote from Stephen Hawking:<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>There is no heaven or afterlife [...] that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\">\nStephen Hawking.\n<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/may\/15\/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven\" target=\"_blank\">Interview: There is no Heaven<\/a>\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YJ60bBMesFo\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 440px; padding-left: 20px;\">\n<h4>Responds from John Lennox:<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the light...<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\">\nJohn Lennox, wiskundige & wetenschapsfilosoof, Oxford.\n<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communities.washingtontimes.com\/neighborhood\/not-your-average-read\/2011\/aug\/3\/john-lennox-peter-singer-stephen-hawking-genesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<br class=\"spacer\">\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Conrad Gempf:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>The God of the Jews and Christians is the only God that allows his followers to hear him say, \"Oh, all right, you win.\"<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nConrad Gempf, <i>Jesus asked<\/i>, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003, 109.\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Unknown:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>An atheist was seated next to a dusty old cowboy on an airplane and he turned to him and said,\n<br>\n<i>\u201cDo you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.\u201d<\/i>\n<br>\nThe old cowboy, who had just started to read his book, replied to the total stranger,\n<br>\n<i>\u201cWhat would you want to talk about?\u201d<\/i>\n<br>\n<i>\u201cOh, I don\u2019t know,\u201d<\/i> said the atheist. <i>\u201cHow about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?\u201d<\/i> as he smiled smugly.\n<br>\n<i>\u201cOkay,\u201d<\/i> he said. <i>\u201cThose could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff \u2013 grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?\u201d<\/i>\n<br>\nThe atheist, visibly surprised by the old cowboy's intelligence, thinks about it and says, <i>\u201cHmmm, I have no idea.\u201d<\/i>\n<br>\nTo which the cowboy replies, <i>\u201cDo you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don\u2019t know shit?\u201d...<\/i><span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hr\"\/>\n\n<!--END APHORISM-->\n\n<!--START THEOLOGY-->\n\n<a id=\"theology\"><\/a>\n<h1>Theology<\/h1>\n\n<h4>Rob Plummer:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>I tell my students to hold onto the biblical text like a rider in a rodeo holds onto a bull. And, I also warn them that the only persons in the rodeo ring not on bulls are clowns.<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\">\nRob Plummer, May 18, 2010\n<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ltpalculict.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/18\/rob-plummer-great-quote-on-hermeneutics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h4>Robert H. Stein:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>To say that there is nothing unique about a gold crown because that same gold is also found in a nearby mountain is to lose sight of the fact that in the mountain the gold is scattered and covered with dirt, rock and vegetation. Certainly knowing where to find that gold, removing it from the dirt, rock and vegetation, and then shaping it into a work\nof art requires genius. In a similar way Jesus showed his originality by his selection of what was essential and what was not from the mountain of commandments present in his day<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nRobert H. Stein, <i>The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings<\/i>, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978, p.110.\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h4>Athe\u00efst G. Richard Bozarth, in American Atheist, Febr. 1978:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>Christianity has fought, still fights, and will will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly, and finally the very reason Jesus' earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble, you'll find the sorry remains of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the Redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing!<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nG. Richard Bozarth, 'the Meaning of Evolution' in <i>American Atheist<\/i>, vol 20. no.2, Feb. 1978, pp 19, 30.\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hr\"\/>\n\n<!--END THEOLOGY-->\n\n<!--START CONTRAST-->\n\n<a id=\"contrast\"><\/a>\n<h1>Contrasts<\/h1>\n<div style=\"float:left;width:430px;\">\n<h4>Prolife:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>Only God can decide life and death... That is why abortion is such a terrible sin. You are not only killing life, but putting self before God; yet people decide who has to live and who has to die...<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\">\nMother Teresa\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Doig, D., <i>Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work<\/i> Calcutta (India): HarperCollins Publishers, 1976, p.162.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 440px; padding-left: 20px;\">\n<h4>Pro-abortion:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>No newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment, and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\">\nNobel prize-winner, Francis Crick\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<br class=\"spacer\">\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hr\"\/>\n\n<!--END CONTRAST-->\n\n<!--START MISC-->\n\n<a id=\"miscellany\"><\/a>\n<h1>Miscellany<\/a><\/h1>\n<h4>~ Dr. Seuss<\/h4>\n<p class=\"textq\"><span class=\"leftq\"><\/span>Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.<span class=\"rightq\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\nTheodor Seuss Geisel, <i>Dr. Seuss, The Lorax.<\/i>\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Vertaling: Jurgen Hofmann, 2019)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n<br class=\"spacer\">\n<hr class=\"b\"\/>\n\n<!--END MISC-->\n\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<br class=\"spacer\" \/>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you hear a quote and are determined to remember it for the right occasion. But after a while you cannot remember were you have heard the quote and how it actually was. This is the reason for collecting remarkable, funny and interesting quotes. 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