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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
— Elton Trueblood
The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.
— Elton Trueblood
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
— D. Elton Trueblood
Man is most free when he is most guided.
— Elton Trueblood
The mind becomes like that on which it feeds.
— Elton Trueblood
Lincoln matured best in sorrow.
— Elton Trueblood
His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.
— Elton Trueblood
He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels.
— Elton Trueblood
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.
— D. Elton Trueblood
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.
— D. Elton Trueblood
Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility.
— Elton Trueblood
No one can take the shot for you.
— Lorii Myers
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it ...
— D. Elton Trueblood
What a beautiful difference one single life made." (Unknown) In memory of my grandson, Pete - 12/30/88 to 07/05/10
— Jackie Taylor Zortman
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
— D. Elton Trueblood
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
— Elton Trueblood
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
— Elton Trueblood
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
— Strom Thurmond
Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.
— Clyde DeSouza
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
— D. Elton Trueblood
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
— D. Elton Trueblood
The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
— D. Elton Trueblood
Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
— D. Elton Trueblood
In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.
— Elton Trueblood
I could see Sulla showing her the Cards of Providence, the cards that would one day form the spread that showed her my death.
— Kami Garcia
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
— D. Elton Trueblood
It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.
— Elton Trueblood
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— Larry Brown