Ed Martin Quotes

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Fear cuts deeper than swords.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, "He who is not with me is against me." ... He does not say "He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral.

If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Violence multiplies violence.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

There are no happy endings.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

A pipe is greater than a bong. Because when you're smoking a pipe at least it makes you look like you're thinking about something.

I am what I photograph.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead.

I always tell the younger filmmakers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study they old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

To dwell is to garden.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."