Quotes on Provoking

Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.