Ed Martin Quotes
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
God's love does not love that which is worthy of being loved, but it creates that which is worthy of being loved.
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.
I think we should want all of our cities to become more compassionate places, frankly.
Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
A competitor is a valuable foil that unites a company from within and pushes the brand's boundaries.
If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.
Powerful brands in the future will instead carefully choose who'd they'd love to be friends with - and who they'd be comfortable upsetting.
Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.
I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.