S.A. David Quotes

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.

Things do not change; we change.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Play to win, but enjoy the fun.

You can tell yourself that God's not fair, or you can thank Him that He's not fair. If God was fair, we would be doomed and condemned.

Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn’t need therapy.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

We live in the world our questions create.

The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.

Any damn fool can put on a deal, but it takes genius, faith and perseverance to create a brand.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.