Dwight Longenecker famous quotes

Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Real #Thinking #Miracle

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Thinking #Firsts #Steps

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Hero #Wings #Ideas

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Dark #Mad #Insanity

We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Needs #Dies

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Dog #Bark #Train

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.
-- Dwight Longenecker

#Believe #Thinking #Catholic

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.

Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.