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Kenneth Lee Pike Inspirational Quotes (21)

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All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.
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Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
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The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
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God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle I conform to the nature of God.
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There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
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The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.
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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
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Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
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Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
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Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.
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