Dale Carnegie - "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dallas Willard - “As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.”
Dallas Willard - “Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.”
Dallas Willard - "Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation."
Dallas Willard - "When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!"
Dallas Willard - “Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.”
Daniel O'Connell - "Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."
Daniel Webster - "The Gospel is either true history, or it is a consummate fraud; it is either a reality or an imposition. Christ was what He professed to be, or He was an imposter. There is no other alternative. His spotless life in His earnest enforcement of the truth - His suffering in its defense, forbid us to suppose that He was suffering an illusion of a heated brain. Every act of His pure and holy life shows that He was the author of truth, the advocate of truth, the earnest defender of truth, and the uncompromising sufferer for truth."
Daniel Webster - "This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many time, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. - It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life - it prepares him for death."
David Jeremiah - "Above all else, He loves you and chose to measure that love out not in words, but in blood. He loves you enough to give you the greatest gift conceivable. Would such a love allow you to suffer without purpose?"
David Jeremiah - "Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time."
David Jeremiah - "It is possible to be at the top of Christian service, respected and admired, and not have that indispensable ingredient by which God has chosen to work in His world today - the absolute sacrificial agape love of the Eternal God."
David Jeremiah - "It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver."
David Jeremiah - "Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous."
David Jeremiah - "The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love."
David Jeremiah - "The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness."
David Josiah Brewer - (Supreme Court Opinion in the 1892 Supreme Court Case of "Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States") "No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people. This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.... There is no dissonance in these declarations. There is a universal language pervading them all, having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations of private persons: they are organic utterances; they speak the voice of the entire people... Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law... not Christianity with an established church... but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men."
David M. S. Watson - "Evolution is a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible."
David Noebel - "Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?"
David Nutting - “Creationists are not anti-science. It is just that someone has snuck in during the middle of the night and changed the definition of science. It used to be the search of knowledge, now it is a search for naturalism and only naturalism. I believe this was purposely done to exclude any mention of creation or intelligent design in the classroom.”
David Wilkerson - "A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance."
David Wilkerson - "As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver."
David Wilkerson - "At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God."
David Wilkerson - "God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us."
David Wilkerson - "Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation."
David Wilkerson - "'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord."
Dean Alfange - "I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficience, nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to help face the world boldly and say - 'This, with God's help, I have done.' All this is what it means to be an American."
Dennis Rainey - "You will either be a missionary or a mission field."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed by Hitler April 9, 1945) - "If I see a madman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try and wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver."
Dinesh D’Souza - “An unbiased look at the history of science shows that modern science is an invention of medieval Christianity, and that the greatest break throughs in scientific reason have largely been the work of Christians. Even atheist scientists work with Christian assumptions that, due to their ignorance of theology and history, are invisible to them.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “Carl Sagan helpfully suggests that in order to dispel all doubts about His existence, ‘God could have engraved the Ten Commandments on the moon.’ Pascal supplies a plausible reason for what he calls the hiddenness of God. Perhaps, he writes, God wants to hide Himself from those who have no desire to encounter Him while revealing Himself to those whose hearts are open to Him. If God were to declare Himself beyond our ability to reject Him, then He would be forcing Himself on us. Pascal remarks that perhaps God wants to be known not by everyone but only by the creatures who seek Him.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “Consider this; why do we experience suffering and evil as unjust? If we are purely material beings, then we should no more object to mass murder than a river objects to drying up in a drought. Nevertheless we are not like rivers. We know that evil is real, and we know that it is wrong. But if evil is real, then good must be real as well. How else would we know the difference between the two? Our ability to distinguish between good and evil, and to recognize these as real, means that there is a moral standard in the universe that provides the basis for this distinction. And what is the source for that moral standard if not God?”
Dinesh D’Souza - “For those who think of American history in largely secular terms, it may come as news that the greatest events of our history were preceded by massive religious revivals. The First Great Awakening, a Christian revival that swept the country in the mid-eighteenth century, created the moral foundation of the American Revolution… The Second Great Awakening, which started in the early nineteenth century and coursed through New England and New york and then through the interior of the country, left in its wake the temperance movement, the movement for women’s sufferage, and most importantly, the abolitionist movement.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “God does not want to reign over an empire of automatons. Freedom of choice means that we are free to do good and we are also free to do evil. Man can be a saint only in a world where he can also be a devil. Thus the existence of evil in the world is entirely consistent with a God who despises evil but values freedom.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “Heaven is God’s domain, where He is eternally present. Hell is where God is eternally absent. God doesn’t reject the atheist; the atheist rejects God. God doesn’t dispatch the atheist to hell; the atheist wishes to close his eyes and heart to God, and God reluctantly grants him his wish. In a sense, the gates of hell are locked from the inside.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “Historian Joseph Needham explains that despite the wealth and sophistication of China in ancient and medieval times, science never developed there because ‘there was no confidence that the code of natures’s laws could ever be unveiled and read, because there was no assurance that a divine being, even more rational than ourselves, had ever formulated such a code capable of being read.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “If determinism is true, then no one in the world can ever refrain from anything that he or she does. The whole of morality - not just this morality or that morality but morality itself - becomes an illusion. Our whole vocabulary of praise and blame, admiration and contempt, approval and disapproval would have to be eradicated. If someone murdered his neighbor, or exterminated an entire population, we would have no warrant to punish or even criticize that person because, after all, he was simply acting in the manner of a computer program malfunctioning or a stone involuntarily rolling down a hill.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “If there is a divine being who has created the universe with special concern for us human beings, then it is entirely reasonable to suppose that, absent our ability to find Him, He would find His way to us.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “My conclusion is that, contrary to popular belief, atheism is not primary an intellectual revolt; it is a moral revolt. Atheists don’t find God invisible so much as objectionable. They aren’t adjusting their desires to the truth, but rather the truth to fit their desires.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “Naturalism and materialism are not scientific conclusions; rather, they are scientific premises. They are not discovered in nature but imposed upon nature. In short, they are articles of faith.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “One may say that capitalism civilizes greed in much the same way that marriage civilizes lust. Both institutions seek to domesticate wayward or fallen human impulses in socially beneficial ways.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “Science also relies on the equally unsupported belief that the rationality of the universe is mirrored in the rationality of our human mind. So where did Western man get this faith in a unified, ordered, and accessible universe? How did we go from chaos to cosmos? My answer, in a word, is Christianity.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “...scientific enterprise is a faith-based proposition no less mysterious than any religious dogma. This is the presumption, quite impossible to prove, that the universe is rational. Scientists take for granted the idea that the universe operates according to laws, and that these laws are comprehensible to the human mind.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The Bible is unique among the documents of ancient history in positing an absolute beginning.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The movement and contingency of the world cannot be without some ultimate explanation. Since God is by definition outside the universe, He is not part of the series. Therefore the rules of the series, including the rules of causation, would not logically apply to Him. Think of God as the author of a novel. The events in the narrative have a certain coherence and logic. Something that occurs in the beginning of the story causes a crisis for one of the characters in the middle of the story… But the author is the cause of the story on an entirely different level. The rules of causation that apply within the novel do not apply to its creator.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The effort to teach our children hostility to religion, and specifically to Christianity, is especially strange considering that Western civilization was built by Christianity. The problem is not that our young people know too much about Christianity, but that they know too little… One in ten Americans apparently believe that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.”
Dinesh D’Souza “The nuclear family, the idea of limited government, the Western concept of the rule of law, and our culture’s high emphasis on the relief of suffering all derive from this basic Christian understanding of the dignity of fallible human beings.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The presence of moral disagreement does not indicate the absence of universal morality. How can the fact of behavior, however eccentric and diverse, invalidate the norm of what is right?”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The problem of evil is not a problem of knowledge, but a problem of will.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The question for secular morality is, in seeking the inner self, which self are you seeking? What principle do you have that distinguish the good inner self from the bad inner self?... secular morality most prevalent forms is irresponsible. It offers no check on those who invoke ‘self-discovery’ as an excuse to engage in behavior traditionally considered improper and immoral.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The separation of the realms should not be a weapon against Christianity; rather, it is a device supplied by Christianity to promote social peace, religious freedom, and a moral community.”
Dinesh D’Souza - “The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christanity and keep the values. THis, Nietzsche says, is an illusion. Our Western values are what Nietzsche terms ‘shadows of gods.’ Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.”
D. L. Moody - "God, being a perfect God, had to give a perfect Law, and the Law was given not to save men, but to measure them. I want you to understand this clearly, because I believe hundreds and thousands stumble at this point. They try to save themselves by trying to keep the Law; but it was never meant for men to save themselves by....Ask Paul why {the Law} was given. Here is his answer, 'That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God' (Romans 3:19). The Law stops every man's mouth. I can always tell a man who is near the kingdom of God; his mouth is stopped. This, then, is why God gives us the Law - to show us ourselves in our true colors."
Donald Miller - "...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion."
Justice Douglas - "The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other
Douglas MacArthur - "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
Douglas MacArthur - "History fails to record a singly precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
Dounglas Pagels - "Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."
Dwight D. Eisenhower - "In this way (adding 'under God' to the pledge) we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war."
Dwight D. Eisenhower - "The purpose of a devout and united people was set forth in the pages of the Bible... 1) to live in freedom (2) to work in a prosperous land... and (3) to obey the commandments of God... This Biblical story of the Promised land inspired the founder of America. It continues to inspire us..."
Dwight D. Eisenhower - "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "If you don't enter the kingdom of heaven by God's way, you cannot enter at all."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "The best work usually meets the strongest opposition."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it."
Dwight Lyman Moody - "Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then."
