D. T. Max Quotes

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Flirtation: attention without intention.

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful.

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

The manger dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous.

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.

Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.