I.B. George Quotes

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.

Short boughs, long vintage.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

I have found my hero and he is me.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

To a good spender God is the Treasurer.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

One can say everything best over a meal.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

Health without money is halfe an ague.

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.