Donald McGavran famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

  • The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

  • When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

  • The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.

  • The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

  • I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.

  • I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

  • Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings

  • I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

  • While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media,