Al David Quotes

To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.

You only value something if you know it’ll end.

Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

Doug Larson, the famous runner and 1924 Olympic Gold Medal winner, said it best 'Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

As for diet, there is no biblical diet that is required for God’s people today as there was in the Old Testament.

Organic food production has existed for thousands of years (since the beginning of agriculture) and it will continue as long as humans live on the planet.

Stepping into extreme longevity requires strategy, knowledge, spiritual research, emotional release work, inspired dedication, and determination.

Even if we eat the best diet ever (and I highly recommend that we do), we still may not achieve the longevity that is possible.

The truth hurts, my man, but it's a good pain.

In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.

Good and quiet do not connote weakness.

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And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .

In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization.

Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'She looked up from her book.'I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

Insularity plus time yields divergence.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

I'm not most people. I have no patience for those who can't execute a plan with elegance.

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Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

You need to silence the voices that say you cannot do what you set out to.

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.

Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person.

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Why, it would be such fun, ' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.

Horas non numero nisi serenas, ' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

He was "more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.

Life makes fun of us and we should help it.

No two people see things the same.

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.