And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.
– Sinclair Lewis
Related Quotes:
- Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
- I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet. – Francine Pascal
- No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt. – Tessa Dare
- Let’s stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro’s key problem. With Greece gone, who’s next ? – Alex Morritt
- No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. – Theodore Roosevelt
- You don´t need a million dollar business, you just need a million dollar team. – Alin Sav
- You can’t save dollar by dollar to become wealthy. – Ehab Atalla
- the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar. – L Jon Wertheim
- It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST! – Stan Jacobs
- [I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. – Will Durant
- Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared. – Andrew Harvey
- Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. – Robert Byrne
- Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God’s special revelation. – Perry G Downs
- Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_. – Namsoon Kang
- Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind. – Gerhard Ebeling
- Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The rich aren’t paying for luxury – they’re paying for basic humanity. – Lindy West
- Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside. – Julie Kagawa
- When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it. – TA Cline
- Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. – Sam Ewing
- One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church. – Eric Samuel Timm
- The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up! – Billy Graham
- A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways. – Israelmore Ayivor
- The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle. – Brandi L Bates
- This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene–a moment’s forgetfulness suffice. – Andr Gide
- I think it’s outrageous if a historian has a ‘leading thought’ because it means they will select their material according to their thesis – Antony Beevor
- Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis. – Janine Turner
- My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight – Mark Twain
- He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize. – Mohammed Hanif
- He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I’d won a prize, because he was so sparing with them. – Sarah Dessen
- Show me a church’s songs and I’ll show you their theology. – Gordon D Fee
- Why ships won’t use roads, is why cars won’t travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won’t be right. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Well I won’t back downNo I won’t back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won’t back down – Tom Petty
- It’s amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this. – Chuck Palahniuk
- We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives. – Elizabeth Kim
- Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.- Corrie ten Boom – Corrie ten Boom
- Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes. – Judith Stone