Quotes from Don Richardson

If a few people escape from a burning building before the firemen arrive, does that discourage the firemen from rescuing others who are still trapped?

We are not here to loll and frolic but to bring in a harvest for God.

Whether acting to save some or all, rescuers rescue!

The existence of free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?

If someone had shown me a statement of Sawi grammar and asked me to guess the type of persons who developed it, I would have guessed a race of pedantic-philosopher types obsessed with fastidious concern for handling masses of detail efficiently.

In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.

On subsequent visits I expanded further on the life and ministry of Jesus

I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the love, the joy of knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way. A crisis came, I called upon Him, and suddenly He was there, alive! In fact, two thousand years had not aged Him a bit! I found He still had the same power to transform men's lives and hold their loyalty that He had manifested in the Gospels two millenniums before.

Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.