Eugene Nida Quotes

Dynamic equivalence is a central concept in the translation theory, developed by Eugene A. Nida, which has been widely adopted by the United Bible Societies...Purporting to be an academically linguistic concept, it is in fact a sociocultural concept of communication. Its definition is essentially behavourist: determined by external forces, such as society--with strong pragmatist overtones--focusing on the reader rather than the writer. [M]ost twentieth-century American philosophical endeavours are predominantly pragmatist, dwelling in the shadows cast by William James and John Dewey. ~ J. Cammenga

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers. ~ Eugene Schwartz

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. ~ Eugene Kennedy

The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand. ~ Eugene Schwartz

A gospel that not only saves but serves. A gospel that not only saves but seeks to restore all things back unto the One that ushered forth all that is good and beautiful; A gospel that not only saves but ushers in the kingdom of God; A gospel that not only saves but restores the dignity of humanity-even in the midst of our brokenness and depravity. ~ Eugene Cho

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer. ~ Ralph Eugene Meatyard

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician. ~ Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

Faith is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Do whatever you want. Break stuff, touch your penis or boobs to anything, whatever. ~ Eugene Mirman

Our human experience, like the World War II Ultra code-breaking machine, catches the heavy traffic of messages about what we really do and what is done to us every day. ~ Eugene Kennedy

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. ~ Eugene V. Debs

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. ~ Eugene McCarthy

Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Though there were many auspicious signs that preceded and accompanied Jesus's birth that might have prepared us for something kingly and special, the birth of Jesus was of the humblest peasant parentage in an unimportant town and in the lowest conceivable of buildings, a stable. After his birth he moved from there to a despised portion of the country, Galilee, to an unsavory town, Nazareth. As he grew up, he took a blue-collar job as a carpenter. He achieved a measure of notice as an adult when he was a rabbi with several men and women following him, but even then he went out of his way to reject marks of status by touching lepers, washing the feet of his followers, befriending little children, letting women become prominent in his entourage, and finally being crucified under the most humiliating circumstances.
Everything about Jesus spoke of servitude. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said. ~ Eugene Delacroix

The gospel doesn't impose a way of life on us from without and tell us that we have to live up to it. It creates a new life within and then encourages and directs us to the living out of it. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

The contrast between world and church in this regard is stark: American culture is doing its dead level best with its celebrities, consumerism, and violence to keep us in a perpetually arrested state of adolescence. Yet all the while the church is quietly and without false advertising immersing us in the conditions of becoming mature to the measure of the full stature of Christ. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing. ~ Harold Eugene Edgerton

Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him, here was the last of those giants to whom we give the faith of our youth, believing like children that the riddle of our lives may be solved by their quiet judgment. ~ Thomas Wolfe

When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it. ~ Eugene Mirman

When authorities learned that Eugene O'Neill's play All God's Chillun proposed to show black and white children playing together as if that were normal, the district attorney for Manhattan sent the police to stop it. ~ Bill Bryson

Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players. ~ Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian. ~ Eugene Mirman

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~ Eugene O'Neill

I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do. ~ Eugene Richards

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it. ~ Eugene Grace

How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place? ~ Eugene H. Peterson

I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning. ~ Eugene Fama

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model. ~ Eugene Delacroix

The more we learn about the planet, the stranger it becomes to us. ~ Eugene Thacker

Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are. ~ Eugene Delacroix

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. ~ Eugene V. Debs

We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man. ~ Eugene Jarecki

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."] ~ Eugene H. Peterson

The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly. ~ Eugene Delacroix