Oden, Thomas C., and Hall, Christopher A.

This illustrates the prevailing principle in ancient Christian exegesis:  each text is illumined by other sacred texts and by the whole gist of the history of revelation.

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture:  New Testament II:  Mark.  (HR282, IVP, 2005, 1998), p. xxxi.

CHURCH FATHERS; EXEGESIS; ILLUMINATION IN INTERPRETATION; REVELATION

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Oetinger, C. F. (1702-1782)

God grant me the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

in:  Faith Information Project Group, The Faith Letters (HJ045, Word, 1978), p. 141.

CHANGE; SERENITY; WISDOM

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(See: Niebuhr, Reinhold for a similar statement.)

Olmstead, F. H.

Oh, Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!

Gila River Flood Control, 65th Congress, 3d session, Senate doc. 436 (1919).

in:  Bender, Gordon L., ed.  Reference Handbook on the Deserts of North America (UoL, Greenwood Press, 1982) p. 458.

CRIMES; LIBERTY - ABUSES

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Oppenheimer, Robert.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.  This is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

In:  Bova, Ben.  The Fourth State of Matter.  (St Martin's Press, 1971) Dedicatory page.

APPLICATIONS; ATOMIC BOMBS - DEVELOPMENT; SUCCESSES; TECHNOLOGY

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Orwell, George.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of / intelligent men.

in:  Barfield, Owen, History, Guilt, and Habit (PK306, 1981), pp. 17-18.

INTELLIGENT MEN; OBVIOUS, THE

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Otto, Rudolf.

So far from keeping the non-rational element in religion alive in the heart of the religious experience, orthodox Christianity manifestly failed to recognize its value, and by this failure gave to the idea of God a one-sidedly intellectualistic and rationalistic interpretation.

The Idea of the Holy (PI175, 1970?), pp. 17-18.

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY; NON-RATIONAL ASPECTS; RATIONALISM; RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

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Owen,Wilfred.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry.  My subject is War, and the pity of War.  Poetry is in the pity.

Preface to a projected volume of poems,

Quoted by Miller, A. McA., "The Measure of Modern Poetry,"

In:  FEH Forum (Spring, 1989), p. 16.

PITY; POETRY; WAR

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Owens,Virginia Stem.

It doesn't make any more sense to call myself a Christian writer than it would for me to call myself a Christian carnivore or my genetic material Christian chromosomes.  In fact, I am always suspicious when the word "Christian" is employed as an adjective instead of a noun.  It is in such cases usually being used either to sell something or as an excuse for second-rate work, as though piety could make up for poor quality.

in:  Christianity Today (October 17, 1986), p. 55.

AUTHORS; CHRISTIANS; PIETY; QUALITY

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