D.R. Silva Quotes

If you have a fight work it out, don't get out

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged.

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

Learn who you are before becoming what others want.

Do not let the words or actions of others make you doubt yourself.

I know something is super creative, when I feel disappointed that I didn't come up with the idea!

Creativity is improvisation

Creativity helps us fight off the monotony of everyday life!

Creativity is encountering something unexpected

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.

How can a God who said, “Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!

He felt his heart was going to explode, his body burned while his mind tried to reconstitute the ashes of who he once had been.

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?

Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

The way you look to the world, define the way you stand in the world. Change perspective, change the world

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

Being broke is only temporary if you do not allow yourself to be poor forever.

‎"The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That’s what happened the first time, after all.

Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?