Ed Martin Quotes

Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

The Christian church was born in song.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

I do good when people doubt me. When someone says I can't do something, I want to do more. I won't back down from anybody.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio.

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.