Douglas Horton's Quotes

Smile, it's free therapy.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

If food were free, why work?

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves.

Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.