A.E. Kirk Quotes

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I know God is working so I smile!

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.

Virtue is not photogenic.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You Look so much better When You Smile - so smile.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still easier to those who persevere in the practice of these three virtues.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mistreated. Bisexuals should not be mistreated.