Al Murray Quotes

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.

We all have an infant inside of us, but the infant doesn't have to run the show.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.