Ed Martin Quotes

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Nothing burns like the cold.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

All actual life is encounter.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own.

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

My friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts.

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

Every flight begins with a fall.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

No great saint lived without errors.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.