C. N. Lester Quotes

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

If you want to save America, get America saved.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

The Television is the monster of hell.

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.

You make decisions and decisions will make you.

3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion).

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

'Faith' Him When You Can't Feel Him.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry dock.

A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.