The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the ministries if my father would have simply walked away. When I accepted the role as the next senior pastor, he had agreed to be an ambassador-at-large and raise funds for the endowment fund. He didn't do that.


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It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the pretties...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the oth...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Belief gets in the way of learning.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, Wha...
ROBERT A. COOK
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN