R. Alistair Quotes

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

Writers write about what worries them.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.

We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.

Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.

Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

Living at peace with everyone...is not an option, it's an obligation.

The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.

The pathway to lasting honor is to honor Christ.

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.

It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!

I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

Accidents can happen at any time.