David Quotes

Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.

Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

A game is not won until it is lost.

When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

At the end of the day, it's up to me to get the job done but it's always nice to have someone to help you get through the tough week.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.

I think we should be alarmed, watchful, and, as journalists, rigorous and fearless. I think we should be alert.