Al Lewis Quotes
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.
We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.