I.B. George Quotes

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

God judges what we give by what we keep.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

I think the media is a real demon.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.