D. T. Max Quotes

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.

Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet.

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

God's solution is a prayer away!

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.