
Education is power. It is just like a light in complete darkness. —
Ziauddin Yousafzai

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition. —
Elton Trueblood

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced. —
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

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor. —
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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. —
D. Elton Trueblood

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

Music must be played, not executed. —
Jerusalmy Raphael

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork. —
Jonathan Coleman

Contradiction is the perfect evidence, he (Lincoln) thought, of human fallibility. —
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

Came but for friendship, and took away love. —
Thomas Moore

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

Lincoln matured best in sorrow. —
Elton Trueblood

There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish. —
Kevin Durand

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

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

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events. —
M. Beth Bloom