A.Z.Green Quotes

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Jesus rose from the grave and you, you can't even get out of bed.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

They are who we thought they were!

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.