Isaac Quotes

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.