Al Lewis Quotes
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.
To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.