I.B. George Quotes

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

We become what we habitually contemplate

There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for them; his Spirit is able to purify and change their hearts.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

General Lee, I have no division.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.