Martin E. Marty Quote

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...

Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws,...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...