Ed Martin Quotes

Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

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

Always stay open to surprise.

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

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.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Reworking other tracks is also quite cool.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

The devil is God's ape!

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The heart does heal and you will love like this again- except when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.