Sentences with phrase «not write more books»

I am a big fan of John Templeton and am disappointed he did not write more books on his investment philosophy.

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Most people wouldn't see it as something you need to solve, but he wrote the book on it, literally: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become More Successful.

«Limited liability means you can't be financially responsible for more than your investment in the company,» writes Greg McFarlane in his book, Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense.

Elsewhere, the European Central Bank has decided it would not demand Italian lender UniCredit to book more write - downs on its bad loans than those already scheduled, according to Reuters.

As leadership consultant Mark Murphy writes in his 2009 book Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They'll Give You Even More, people can't be coddled into greatness.

Now men who know more than God [sarcasm] decide they don't like that saying, and it doesn't fit in their thinking, so off they go and write books and develope a following of other people who don't like the truth of what Jesus said.

DO NOT think that claims about science and the natural world are more likely true because they are written in new books.

(By the way, a book written two thousand years ago, in a dead language, that got edited three hundred years after its parts were written, and also conflicts with itself, is not evidence... any more than Spiderman comics are evidence that there exists a man with Spidey senses).

our sharpest minds would be schooled HARD by a supreme creator... not the other way around... an average joe off the street could write a better, more moral book than the Bible and utterly destroy the god of any of the holy books in a general knowledge debate with ease.

Christians of a more intellectual persuasion often believe that the bible was inspired by God, but that God didn't literally instruct the scribes who wrote its various books on exactly what to write.

Yes it was written by men 2000 years and above ago in a different culture but that doesn't mean that it supports patriarchal oppression any more than a book written by Germain Greer at the height of the feminist movement's popularity is sexist and supports matriarchal oppression.

I dare say, that if someone other than the Pope had written such a book, it would not have gotten the same amount of publicity and more people would have remained in the dark about this.

There are more people who believe in peace, unity and the pursuit of truth and slog daily to make a difference in this crazy world, without recognition or praise... writing a book doesn't make him credible or noble..

So what you're trying to tell me is that jesus can perform miracles, he did so for a crapload of people, but since it was also thrown into the bible that he can't perform for evil people (or wicked generation or whatever) and since we're all sinners he can't perform miracles so we just have to trust him, actually not him necessarily, a book written by a bunch of people 100's of years after jesus who also weren't seeing miracles done, so they decided that since no more miracles were happening, it's our fault.

If you want to believe in your god, then more power to you, but don't make yourself look stupid by trying to refute scientific fact based on what someone told you or what you've read in an outdated book written to scare and control mankind though fantastical and highly embellished stories meant to inspire fear and obedience to ancient laws and beliefs.

I wrote a lot more about this in my forthcoming book, Close Your Church for Good, and so I won't say anything more about this point here.

Too bad that there is not one single shred of proof that your god or any god exists, and there is not an ounce of proof that your bible is anything more than a book of fables written by bronze age men.

Makes much more sense to believe a book written 1850 years ago by a bunch of goat herders that thought the world was flat and didn't even have the sense not to use their drinking water as the toilet.

This book the Holy Bible which is much more than a book, but is in fact the Spoken & Written Word of God, God Breathed & Inspired given not «by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

More importantly, Podles» book is not written to make an academic case.

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

My purpose, therefore, is not to provide a systematic critique of the book, but rather to comment on two of its more interesting aspects, namely: (1) its argument that the Federalists, in writing the Constitution, were actually defending the principle of the «neutral» state, and (2) its attempt to apply «neutral state» principles to the issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.

Does it not appear that the great book of the present and, much more, of the future, is the work of a Jew, basically motivated by the great stirrings of social concern that moved the prophets, yet writing a work of far different portent?

It was a flawed work, but I could not have deliberately landed on another book written in the last half century by an American author that deserved to be read with more care.

Simply put — we don't believe that an invisible «divine» being wrote this book, nor were the authors of the various sections «divinely inspired» and therefore this is no more than another Aesop's fable.

Also, I have written several books of my own on this topic (and am writing more), and while these didn't make my «Best Christian books» list (how arrogant would that be?)

So is Christianity really following Jesus or the writers of these gospels... oh and the Hebrew chapters has not clue who and when was it written... my suggestion is to spend sometime to know what you believe and what you want to believe... also if you really like to know about what real Jesus was, please read Quran... more eighty times the name of Jesus is mentioned in this book... where there is a chapter with Jesus» mother name «Mary» chapter 19, there is another chapter name «ale imran'the grand father of Jesus, chapter 3... and then compare what Jesus really was dear brother in mankind...

I can not blame him if I have read more of his books than he has of mine, and it might have escaped his notice that I have written on this matter at length - in my book, First Things (Princeton, 1986, Chapters XVI - XVII), and in numerous articles before and since, including a monthly column in a magazine in which he has stood now, for some time, as a member of the Publication Committee.

I write about it more in my book «The Atonement of God» but the bottom line is that the violent portions of the Bible reveals to us what WE are like, NOT what God is like.

If one would like to have a story written on a similar theme but more touching for the fact that the passion of repentance was not awakened, one might use to this effect a tale which is narrated in the book of Tobit.

My one complaint is that the book was not well organized, some of the chapters were poorly written, and the terms for Jewish writings needed to be explained more clearly.

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

DO NOT think that claims about magic and the supernatural are more likely true because they are written in old books.

In the beautiful departure speech in the 14th chapter of John, we hear, «In nay Father's house there are many dwelling places,» and at the end of the Gospel, John brings his witness to a close by noting that in addition to the things he has told us, there is so much more that if it were all reduced to writing, there wouldn't be enough space in the world to contain the number of books that would be required.

«This book is made for need and profit of all good folk,» writes Caxton in his Less Modern English introduction, «as far as they in reading or hearing of it shall more understand and feel the foresaid subtle deceits that daily be used in the world, not to the intent that men should use them, but that every man should eschew and keep him from the subtle false shrews that they be not deceived.»

I agree somewhat... mere claims to posess an «authoritive written record» prove nothing about the documents either way, for or against.But that's not really the itch I was trying to get at.Let me try to be more direct... With respect to the original post, I've been wrestling with how believers / disciples / adherents use «their books» to undergird and support their particular faith

More precisely, it seems that the third chapter of the first part of Process and Reality, while having been written late during the composition of the book, incorporates earlier materials that have been displaced from their initial location in the book.30 The passage from Process 32 discussed here would belong to that category.31 However, one should not, and can not, conclude, on the sole basis that the fourth full paragraph from Process 32 is an insertion, that this paragraph of has to be considered an expression of a second — chronologically speaking — concept of God as non-temporal.

And if that's the case, isn't it odd that God could not write a book that was more clear on its very most important point?

You are blinded by your faith (belief without evidence) and obviously don't care if what you believe is true or not, you only care that you get to think you're more intelligent because you have a book written 2000 years ago, by 40 different men that provides what you believe to be the answers.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

I believe there is something more than us, but I do NOT believe what was written in some book.

I teach them right from wrong by example not scaring them into believing in a book of stories that was written back in B.C. Nothing erks me more then to hear my NJ suburb families tell me how they can't wait to see their little girl get all dressed up in their communion dress, only to not continue with the religious education.

This attitude, however, did not go unrebuked, and two books in the late Old Testament specifically represent the larger view: the Book of Ruth, written to encourage a more generous interracial policy, and the Book of Jonah, written to enforce the worldwide mission of Israel.

... wow, lot's of mis - statements here by people speculating about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...

Why don't you spend some more time dreaming up all the possible combinations, and then write a book about it?

Later on, he wrote another book called In God's Underground, which was a more complete picture of his martyrdom, and filled in the blanks that the first book didn't touch on.

What I think is really important for me about the book is, I wrote it as if I were dying, and I finished the manuscript, and then they told me I had cancer and that it expanded further than they'd hoped and that it was more advanced than we would want, and I didn't know if it was going to be my last Christmas.

Just because one or more books have been written or images of a god repeatedly carved on pyramid walls does not prove of that god's existence any more than the writings of various people in various books proved the validity of «spontaneous generation» or that the earth is the center of the universe.

A real Christian would go out and help all these people and be humble about it, not broadcast it on TV and write more books.

He was in fact already writing the «big books», in the form of the commentaries or, Galatians and Psalms, though they did not seem «big» to him — and he was right that the little books, were in a way, more difficult, involving genuine communication with the less well educated.