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
Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
— Bertolt Brecht
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
I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.
— James Gosling
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
