S.A. David Quotes

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

I just want to play baseball.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.

The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

We/I am a son/daughter of God. In fact, we are all expressions/projections of the Infinite Conciousness, which is love, that is what I mean when I say "I am a son of god "GOD"!"

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.