D. T. Max Quotes

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

If I didnt choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

There is no art without Eros.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

Find joy in the ordinary.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

I have no words for my reality.

Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.