Home / Quotes / Quote by David Jenkins

Quote by David Jenkins

“I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.”

Quote by David Jenkins

Author

David Jenkins, a British bishop, was born on January 26, 1925, and passed away on September 4, 2016. He served as a significant religious leader in the UK church, known for his theological research and public speaking. more

You May Also Like

“But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.”

Giving Action Interest Pleasure Drama

Author:George P. Baker

“Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.”

Should Drama Oneself

Author:George P. Baker

“Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.”

Impossible Treats Improbable Farce

Author:George P. Baker

“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.”

Ifs Giving Choices Individual Perfect Results Audience Subjects Listening Involved Periods Drama Treatment Instruction Sympathetic Freedom Of Choice Great Results

Author:George P. Baker

“In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.”

Should Play Action Reading Loses Remembered

Author:George P. Baker

“In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.”

Ifs Enough Character Today Moving Situation Absurd Granted Premises Farce

Author:George P. Baker

“The drama is a great revealer of life.”

Author:George P. Baker

“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.”

Trying Differences Views Audience Comedy Materials Depends Essentials Tragedy Point Of View Clever Emphasis

Author:George P. Baker

“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”

Failing Drama Limits Elements Appeals Poorest

Author:George P. Baker

“What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.”

Years Sometimes Play Periods Tragedy Tragic Elizabethan

Author:George P. Baker