Ed Martin Quotes

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

I don't live to eat, I eat to live.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

I think the best thing about being dumb is that it makes magic a lot better. Where the hell did that rat come from? I dunno, but I'm calling the cops because he just cut that lady in half.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.