D. T. Max Quotes

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

Wherever your joy is, go after it, ... pretty ladies.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!

If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

I do not employ tricks when I attack.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

God sinks into dust before man.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Death cancels all engagements.

When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.

You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do.

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.