Martin Marty Quotes & Sayings

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity — Martin E. Marty

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and ... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring. — Fred Willard

Hospitality is a word used to describe a human behavior that has the potential to bring about real-understanding among people who do not share a common faith or culture. — Martin E. Marty

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years. — Clint Eastwood

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. — Steve Martin

When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other. — Rodney Dangerfield

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. — Martin E. Marty

Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful. — Martin E. Marty

Thoughts are the seeds, and if you water
them enough they grow and your actions become the fruit. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We are now all Pakistanis - not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on - and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. — Martin E. Marty

I think it works if there's something online that is not in the show, or in a newspaper, if there's some added value to it - reading a newspaper on line, sometimes you can get video, which you can't get from reading a newspaper. — Edward Allen Bernero

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest. — Gaspard Ulliel

There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness. — Martin E. Marty

And by hearing all the stories we will find points of contact and communication, and the world story, the Great Story, will have a chance to develop. That's the only precaution I would suggest - that we not rush into announcing the arrival of this international, this great world story, based simply on our knowledge of one or a few traditions. — Chinua Achebe

The truth echoed in her head. On the same day she met him, he had tried to kill her.
Her mate. — Lisa Carlisle

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? — Martin E. Marty

I don't think I'm a singer that likes to flex my vocals. I'll do some runs and a bunch of high notes, but that's it. I really pride myself and I really work on just trying to sing. Like emotions. Just using my voice, not doing anything extra. — Shamir

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions. — Martin E. Marty

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours. — Anne Rice

I'm being sent back to my time, but - I love you, Philip. At any age, in any body, in any era ... I love you. — Alexandra Monir

That we find freedom, aliveness and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals and expands us. — Eve Ensler

No one ever asks. Like they think they're doing me a favor. That if they don't bring it up, I won't have to think about it. Just because I don't talk about it doesn't mean i forget. I don't talk about it because no one ever asks. — Katja Millay

Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying? — Martin E. Marty

To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression. — Martin E. Marty

The people who are good at being civil often lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions often lack civility. — Martin E. Marty

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. — Arthur Hailey

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man. — Martin Donovan

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this. — Isabel Allende

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance. — Martin E. Marty

The great historian of religion Martin Marty once said every religion serves two functions: First, it is a message of personal salvation telling is how to get right with God; and second, it is a lens for interpreting the world.
Historically, evangelicals have been good at the first functions- at "saving souls". But they have not been nearly so good at helping people to interpret the world around them- at providing a set of interrelated concepts that function as a lens to give a biblical view of areas like science, politics, economics, or bioethics.
As Marty puts it, evangelicals have typically "accentuated personal piety and individual salvation, leaving men to their own devices to interpret the world around them. — Nancy Pearcey

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow, — Martin E. Marty

The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce. — Martin E. Marty