Ed Martin Quotes

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Drive them [Jews] like mad dogs from our land... let not one of them live.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

It still feels unreal sometimes. It all happened so fast, like an explosion you know. But I am really hyped about the success of 'Animals' and 'Wizard'.

I learned a lot about the business side of the industry and some new production tools. It's getting more and more difficult, because of my exploding gig schedule.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

The cross alone is our theology.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

To remove blood stains from your conscience try frozen margaritas.

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

You only need a heart full of grace

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

In the beginning was the relationship.

Always stay open to surprise.

Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back... he breaks out into good works.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.