S.A. David Quotes

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

The best part of falling is getting back up again.

Whereas women are most turned on by a man's depth of presence, men are most turned on by a woman's radiance and energy: how she moves, moans, smiles, and opens in love.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.

To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

Don't Stop when you are Tired. Stop When You are Done.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.