Top 7 Edification Quotes

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

Noam Chomsky

Edification, Too Much, Reason Why

KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 05, 2003.

Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

T. B. Joshua

Comfort, Edification, Sin

"Prophetic Birth - A Wednesday Wonder". All Voices, June 15, 2009.

The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.

P. T. Barnum

Age, Edification, Wonder

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Richard Dawkins

Entertainment, Edification, Said

Source: newrepublic.com

Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church.

Pope Innocent I

Catholic, Church, Edification

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

Susan Sontag

Self, Edification, Actors

Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.217, Farrar, Straus and Giroux