D. T. Max Quotes

You don't have to be dishonest to communicate the gospel.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

God has high plans for you and me.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated. It's a weird kind of vicious circle.

As the son of a director, I really believe an actor's place is just to shut-up and do what you're told to some agree.

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

The morning hour has gold at the mouth.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.